State v. Hayes

AMDAHL, Chief Justice.

In State v. Hayes, 428 N.W.2d 871 (Minn.App.1988), the court of appeals affirmed the conviction of defendant, Norman Dean Hayes, for the gross misdemeanor offense of using an artificial light to locate a wild animal while in possession of a firearm, bow or other implement capable of killing big game, Minn.Stat. §§ 97B.081, subd. 1 and 97A.331, subd. 2 (1986). We granted the defendant’s petition for review not because we disagreed with the ultimate decision of the court of appeals but in order to address the issue of the correctness of the trial court’s instructions on…