State v. Master

Defendant was found guilty by a district court jury of aggravated assault, Minn. St. 609.225, subd. 1, and was sentenced by the trial court to a minimum 3-year term in prison pursuant to Minn. St. 1974, § 609.11, subd. 1. On this appeal from judgment of conviction defendant contends that there was, as a matter of law, insufficient evidence of his guilt and that the trial court erred (a) in permitting the prosecutor to impeach him by means of a prior conviction, (b) in the way it handled a request by the jury for information, and (c) in sentencing him to a 3-year minimum term pursuant to Minn.…