State v. Sanders

*198COYNE, Justice.

Defendant, Lonnie Dale Sanders, was found guilty by a district court jury of second-degree felony murder, Minn.Stat. § 609.19(2) (1984),1 for the stabbing death of his brother and was sentenced by the trial court to an executed prison term of 116 months. Defendant appealed to the Court of Appeals, contending (1) that his conviction should be reversed outright because the state failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the killing was unjustified or (2) that he should be given a new trial because the trial court erroneously admitted certain autopsy photographs, gave…