State v. Wurdemann

Sheran, Justice.

The appeal is from an order of the district court denying defendant’s motion for judgment in his favor or, in the alternative, a new trial, after a verdict of guilty in criminal proceedings.

The information charged defendant with an attempt to induce a witness to withhold true testimony in violation of Minn. St. 613.09. The proof at trial established that defendant attempted to induce a young woman to absent herself completely and give no testimony whatever in an arson case in which it was then contemplated she would be called as a witness. At the time of the inducement…