State v. Jolley

KEITH, Chief Justice.

Defendant, John Samuel Jolley, appeals from judgment of conviction of first-degree murder claiming, inter alia, that the trial court’s instructions to the jury on the defense of mental illness were inadequate. We affirm.

Defendant was an employee of a discount store in Northeast Minneapolis. On the afternoon of August 31, 1991, while working at the store, he spotted the victim, 8-year-old Margaret Marques, who had gone to the basement of the store to use the bathroom. Defendant, having long fantasized about kidnapping a woman or a girl, put his hand over the victim’s…