State v. Fagerstrom

Nelson, Justice.

Appeal from a conviction of attempted murder in the first degree and from the denial of a motion for a new trial.

Defendant-appellant, William V. Fagerstrom, an inmate of the State Reformatory at St. Cloud, was involved in an altercation with a fellow inmate on February 20, 1967. On March 2, 1967, a complaint was filed in the. St. Cloud municipal court charging defendant with attempted first-degree murder. At that time defendant waived a preliminary hearing. Walter Johnson, the public defender for the Tenth Judicial District, was subsequently appointed to represent defendant.…