State v. Shotley

Sheran, Chief Justice.

Appeal from a judgment of conviction for sodomy upon or with a child in violation of Minn. St. 609.293, subd. 4, and from denial of a motion for a new trial. Defendant, who was 21 at the time of trial, was sentenced to serve no more than 10 years’ imprisonment in the custody of the commissioner of corrections.

On appeal, defendant contends that the conviction should be reversed because:(1) The trial judge permitted the testimony of an absent witness given at a preliminary hearing to be read to the jury;(2) The trial judge refused defendant’s request for psychiatric…