State v. Shaw

This is a pretrial appeal by the state from an order of the district court dismissing a complaint for lack of probable cause in the prosecution of defendant for arson, Minn.St. 609.561, subd. 1. We dismiss the appeal as being from a nonappealable order under Rule 29.03, subd. 1, Rules of Criminal Procedure, and vacate our prior order refusing to dismiss the state’s appeal and granting discretionary review as improvidently issued.

The complaint in this ease included a detailed summary of results of an investiga tion into the cause of the fire which destroyed defendant’s dwelling place and…