State v. Johnson

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction in a criminal prosecution in which defendant was charged with murder in the third degree. Minn. St. 609.195. The trial court submitted the lesser included offenses of manslaughter in the first degree (§ 609.20) and manslaughter in the second degree. § 609.205. The jury returned a verdict finding defendant not guilty of the first two offenses but found him guilty of manslaughter in the second degree. The only assigned error of substance relates to the claim that the verdict is not supported by the evidence.

From the record it appears that on…