Kost v. State

COYNE, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order of the district court denying a petition for post-conviction relief in the form of a new trial. We affirm.

In 1977 petitioner was found guilty by a district court jury of two counts of kidnapping and one count of aggravated assault. The convictions were based on evidence -that on March 29, 1974, petitioner and Tom Munoz, seeking revenge for an attempted drug rip-off, abducted, tortured and killed Richard Peglow, one of the participants in the attempted rip-off, burying the body somewhere north of the Twin Cities. Both Peglow’s father and his girl…