DeMars v. State

WAHL, Justice.

Jeffrey DeMars appeals from an order of the Sherburne County District Court deny*14ing his post-conviction petition for reversal of his conviction or a new trial. He was convicted of first-degree murder on June 26, 1981, after a trial to the court in which the only issue was whether he was suffering under such a defect of reason as not to know the nature of his act or that it was wrong at the time he stabbed his mother 56 times, causing her death. The trial court found that he knew the nature of his act so that he was not relieved of criminal liability for his act by his mental…