State v. Mastrian

Rogosheske, Justice.

Defendant was convicted by a jury after trial in Duluth, St. Louis County, of murder in the first degree. The conviction resulted from the brutal murder of Carol Thompson in St. Paul, Ramsey County, on March 6, 1963, admittedly by one Dick W. C. Anderson, as previously described in complete detail in State v. Thompson, 273 Minn. 1, 139 N. W. (2d) 490, certiorari denied, 385 U. S. 817, 87 S. Ct. 39,17 L. ed. (2d) 56. In that case, the conviction of decedent’s husband, T. Eugene Thompson, of first-degree murder resulting from the same homicide upon essentially similar…