State v. Wellman

WAHL, Justice.

This is a child abuse case. Defendant was found guilty by a district court jury of three counts of assault in the third degree, Minn.Stat. § 609.223 (1982) (assault involving infliction of substantial bodily harm). The counts were based on separate assaults against the same victim on three separate occasions. The trial court sentenced defendant to consecutive terms of 1 year and 1 day for the first assault, 1 year and 1 day for the second, and 36 months for the third. Appealing from judgment of conviction, defendant argues for outright reversal of all three convictions on the…