State v. Loyd

KELLEY, Justice.

Defendant was found guilty by a district court jury of a charge of being a felon in possession of a handgun, Minn.Stat. § 624.-713, subds. 1(b), 2 (1980), and was sentenced by the trial court to an executed term of 22 months in prison, which is the presumptive term for this offense (severity level III) by one with defendant’s criminal history score (four). On this appeal from judgment of conviction defendant contends that the evidence that he possessed the weapon was legally insufficient and that the trial court prejudicially erred in permitting the prosecutor to elicit, while…