State v. Nelson

Defendant was found guilty by a district court jury of a charge of simple robbery, Minn. Stat. § 609.24 (1978), and was sentenced by the trial court to a maximum prison term of 10 years. The sole issue raised by defendant on this appeal from judgment of conviction is whether the trial court prejudicially erred in denying defendant’s request for the submission of lesser offenses. We affirm.

The state’s evidence established that defendant and an accomplice, both young adults, followed and grabbed a 13-year-old boy after he got off a bus and after they discussed “getting” him because he looked…