State v. Prudhomme

MacLaughlin, Justice.

This appeal by defendant from a judgment of conviction raises issues involving (1) the protection contained in Minn. St. 609.035 against multiple punishment for multiple offenses arising from a single behavioral incident, and (2) the application of the policy, enunciated by this court in State v. Holmes, 281 *377Minn. 294, 161 N. W. 2d 650 (1968), against penalizing criminal defendants who are successful on appeal.

At approximately 1:30 a. m. on February 5, 1972, defendant picked up three teenage girls who were standing on the sidewalk outside a downtown Duluth hotel hoping to…