Legal Opinion

State v. Monroe

Supreme Court of Minnesota

Decided May 16, 1919No. 21,161PublishedCited by 44 opinions

Defendant was indicted by the grand jury of Hennepin county, charged with the crime of grand larceny in the first degree, tried in the district court for that county before Steele, J., and a jury which returned a verdict of guilty as charged in the indictment. From the judgment sentencing him to hard labor at the state prison and from the order denying his motion for a new trial, defendant appealed.

1Opinion of the CourtBrown, C. J.

Defendant was convicted of stealing an automobile, and appealed from an order' denying a new trial. '

The assignments - of error present five separate questions, only one of which deserves special consideration. The matter of granting or denying á continuance on the motion of defendant rested in the discretion of the trial court, in the exercise of which we discover no error. The point that there was another indictment pending against defendant for the same crime,'therefore that no evidence should have been received until the other indictment was shown to have been dismissd- or otherwise…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. State v. AmesSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1903
  2. State v. FitchetteSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1902
  3. State v. SederstromSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1906
  4. State v. BaileySupreme Court of Missouri · 1905
  5. State v. WilsonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1898

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3Cited by44 opinions

  1. State v. ForsmanSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1977
  2. State v. SweeneySupreme Court of Minnesota · 1930
  3. State v. NelsonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1921
  4. State v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1928
  5. State v. HaneySupreme Court of Minnesota · 1945

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