State v. Johnson

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Hennepin County District Court convicting defendant of murder in the second degree and aggravated robbery. We affirm.

Defendant was indicted November 27, 1973, along with two other men, Everett Banham and Edo Walker, for the October 13,1973, murder of Woodrow Kipp, a driver for the Yellow Cab Company of Minneapolis.

Codefendant Banham testified that he happened to run into defendant on the evening of the Kipp killing at a bar in downtown Minneapolis, where the defendant invited him to attend a party at 3715 Second Avenue South. Upon arriving at the…