State v. Owens

COYNE, Justice.

Defendant was found guilty by a district court jury of first-degree premeditated murder and was sentenced by the trial court to life imprisonment. Minn.Stat. § 609.185(1) (1982). On this appeal from judgment of conviction and from an order denying postconviction relief, defendant seeks (1) an outright reversal of his conviction because the evidence of his guilt was legally insufficient or (2) a new trial because (a) the trial court improperly limited defendant’s questioning of prospective jurors at voir dire and denied defendant’s peremptory challenge of a juror, (b) the trial…