STATE v. MILLER, 292 Minn. 509 (1972)

195 N.W.2d 818

No. 42621.Supreme Court of Minnesota.
March 10, 1972.

Criminal law — attempted robbery — voluntariness of admissions — sufficiency of evidence.

Appeal by Charles Francis Miller from a judgment of the Hennepin County District Court, Tom Bergin, Judge, whereby he was convicted of attempted aggravated robbery. Affirmed.

C. Paul Jones, State Public Defender, and Kenneth F. Kirwin
and Rosalie E. Wahl, Assistant State Public Defenders, for appellant.

Warren Spannaus, Attorney General, George M. Scott, County Attorney, and Henry W. McCarr, Jr., and David G. Roston, Assistant County Attorneys, for respondent.

Heard before Knutson, C. J., and Murphy, Otis, and Peterson, JJ.

PER CURIAM.

A jury found defendant guilty of attempted aggravated robbery of a filling station in Minneapolis. On this appeal from the judgment of conviction, defendant contends that the evidence was insufficient to support the verdict and that certain in-custody statements of defendant were inadmissible because they were, as a matter of law, involuntary. The voluntariness of defendant’s inculpatory statements was, by any standard,[1] sufficiently established, and the evidence of his guilt was overwhelming.

Affirmed.

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