State v. Edwards

Murphy, Justice.

This is an appeal from the denial of a motion for a verdict of not guilty notwithstanding the verdict or for a new trial, after conviction of possession of burglars’ tools in violation of Minn. St. 621.13. Numerous errors are assigned, the principal one of which is that the trial court erred in instructing the jury that possession of burglarious tools gave rise to a presumption of intent to use them in the commission of a crime;

From the record it appears that in the early morning hours of July 12, 1961, four members of the Mankato police force responded to a burglar alarm…