State v. Brown

Defendant appeals from a conviction after a plea of guilty to an unauthorized use of a motor vehicle contrary to Minn. St. 609.55.

On March 19, 1966, defendant, aged 17, stole an automobile in Red Wing, Minnesota* and drove it to Prescott, Wisconsin, where he was arrested. At that time he was a fugitive from the Red Wing Training School, having failed to return from a 1-day institutional parole for a visit to his parents’ home in St. Paul 12 days earlier. After his arrest, in some manner not disclosed by the record, he was returned to Minnesota and placed in the custody of the St. Paul Police…