State v. Dimler

Julius J. Olson, Justice.

Defendant was convicted of an assault in the second degree and appeals from “the judgment and sentence” imposed; also from the order denying his motion for new trial.

On September 24, 1988, defendant’s 21st birthday, he left his home in St. Cloud shortly after noon and promptly proceeded to celebrate the event by imbibing, “not wisely but too well,” intoxicating liquors of various kinds. He visited one drinking place after the other and on several occasions revisited some of them. He claims to have had many glasses of beer as well as from 14 to 20 drinks of “hard”…