State v. Menuey

I. INTRODUCTION

Pursuant to verdicts, the defendant-appellant, Jeffry E. Menuey, was adjudged guilty on each of two counts of criminal nonsupport of his children, in violation of Neb. Rev. Stat. § 28-706 (Reissue 1985). He was thereafter sentenced on the first count to imprisonment for a period of 1 year and on the second count to probation for a period of 5 years. He assigns as error the district court’s (1) failure to find the evidence insufficient to support the verdicts, (2) failure to find that the presence during the jury’s deliberations of a discharged alternate juror “violates the…