State v. Thompson

Defendant, found guilty by a district court jury of aggravated robbery, contends on this appeal from judgment of conviction that he was deprived of a fair trial by certain evidentiary rulings by the trial court and that, in any event, the evidence against him was, as a matter of law, insufficient to support the verdict. After careful consideration of these contentions, we affirm.

On the evening of Saturday, July 29,1972, the night desk clerk at the Voyageur Motel in Duluth went to Room 224 in response to a complaint that the toilet in that room was clogged. Upon entering the room, he was…