State v. Crace

SCOTT, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Mille Lacs County District Court wherein a jury found the defendant, Bernard Crace, guilty of second degree manslaughter. We affirm.

On October 23, 1976, Crace and the decedent, Dennis J. Kowalsky, met to go duck hunting. Later that afternoon, Crace mistook Kowalsky for a bear and fatally shot him. The facts surrounding this tragic shooting are relatively undisputed.

Crace and Kowalsky met early in the morning. They intended to spend the day duck hunting at a nearby lake. Upon arriving at the lake, however, they discovered that ice” had…