Thompson v. State

Murphy, Justice.

We are presented with certification of a question which the trial court considered doubtful or important (Minn. St. 632.10), arising out of a postconviction proceeding (§§ 590.01 to 590.06), instituted by petition of T. Eugene Thompson, who is now serving a sentence for the offense of first-degree murder. State v. Thompson, 273 Minn. 1, 139 N. W. (2d) 490.

In the proceeding, Donald John Giese, a newspaper reporter, was called as a witness, presumably to give testimony relating to Thompson’s claim that he was “denied his Constitutional right to a fair and impartial trial because…