State v. Braman

Peterson, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction for the crime of burglary. Minn. St. 609.58, subd. 2(3).

Defendant asserts, first, that his court-appointed counsel 1 was incompetent in that he did not call three available witnesses — defendant’s wife, Dick Harper, and Harper’s wife — to testify in corroboration of his defense of intoxication. 2 The claim is without merit.

Defendant was caught virtually redhanded in the crime about 3 a. m. on July 9,1966. His counsel called as a witness Paul Smith, who testified that he had been with defendant most of the previous day, until…