State v. Mergenthaler

Gregory Mergenthaler (Mergenthaler) appeals from a Judgment and Commitment of the First Judicial District Court, Lewis and Clark County, based on a jury verdict convicting him of negligent homicide. We affirm.

The issues on appeal are as follows:

1. Did the District Court err in denying Mergenthaler’s motion to dismiss at the conclusion of the State’s case?

2. Did the District Court err in allowing autopsy slides and a photograph of the victim, while alive, to be presented to the jury?

Mergenthaler began dating Donna Weinzetl (Donna) in November, 1991. Donna was the mother of Ashley Weinzetl…