State v. Walker

Kelly, Justice.

Defendant appeals from a judgment of conviction of first- degree murder and the denial of his alternative post-trial motions. We affirm.

On July 4, 1969, Milton Richardson, the owner of the Club Rendezvous, was found beaten to death in his nightclub located in Duluth. There was no witnesses to the crime, which apparently occurred in the early morning hours when Richardson was alone in the club cleaning up and counting the previous day’s receipts. The apparent motive was robbery, although the brutality of the way Richardson was bludgeoned to death was atypical of murder…