State v. Clark

Peterson, Justice.

Defendants, Betty L. Clark and Michael S. Clark, mother and son, were each convicted in St. Paul municipal court of the statutory offense of simple assault, Minn. St. 609.22, and the ordinance violation of disorderly conduct, St. Paul Legislative Code, § 438.02. Trial of the ordinance charges to the court and the statutory charges to the jury were consolidated by consent of the defendants. Both were sentenced to 45 days in the workhouse, with 30 days suspended, on each charge, the sentences to run consecutively. Each appeals from the judgments of conviction.

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