State v. Mount

NEUMAN, Justice.

On appeal from convictions for first-degree robbery and first-degree burglary, de fendant Harold Ellis Mount challenges trial court rulings concerning speedy trial, lesser included offenses, evidence, and imposition of mandatory minimum sentences. Because we conclude that the trial court erroneously refused to instruct the jury on lesser included offenses, we must reverse and remand for new trial.

The jury could have found the following facts. On June 1, 1986, a woman who had just returned to her apartment from an early morning walk headed back outside to purchase a can of pop.…