State v. Houle

MacLAUGHLIN, Justice.

Defendant, Michael D. Houle, was found guilty by a jury of aggravated robbery and has appealed from the judgment of conviction. Because we find that no prejudicial errors occurred during the course of the trial, we affirm.

Shortly after midnight on October 29, 1974, a man wearing striped bib overalls, a jacket, and a cap on top of a blond, bushy wig held up the Kom On Inn in Duluth, Minnesota. The robber, whose face was covered by a red bandanna, pointed a single-barrel pump shotgun at the bartender and ordered him to empty the till. The man seized the money and ran out…