State v. Hembd

Otis, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction for the crime of false imprisonment. Defendant assigns as error the trial court’s refusal to receive in evidence complainant’s hospital records, and its failure to instruct the jury with regard to the defense of good motive. We reverse.

Complainant, a 22-year-old woman, spent the evening of February 28, 1973, at the C C Tap in south Minneapolis. She was unable to disclose the amount of beer she had consumed while there, but testified that she was not intoxicated. She left her friends at 1 a. m. when the tavern closed and proceeded…