Case Name: STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. Leslie Gaylord MEANEY, Appellant
Court: Minnesota Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Minnesota
Decision Date: 1980-03-07
Citations: 290 N.W.2d 180
Docket Number: No. 49850
Parties: STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. Leslie Gaylord MEANEY, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: North Western Reporter 2d
Volume: 290
Pages: 180–180

Head Matter:
STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. Leslie Gaylord MEANEY, Appellant.
No. 49850.
Supreme Court of Minnesota.
March 7, 1980.
C. Paul Jones, Public Defender, and Kathy A. King, Asst. Public Defender, Minneapolis, for appellant.
Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., St. Paul, Thomas L. Johnson, County Atty., Robert H. Lynn, Asst. County Atty., Vernon E. Bergstrom, Chief, Appellate Section, David W. Larson, Thomas A. Weist and Janeen E. Rosas, Asst. County Attys., Minneapolis, for respondent.

Opinion:
YETKA, Justice.
Defendant was found guilty by a district court jury of a charge of aggravated assault, Minn.Stat. § 609.225, subd. 1 (1978) (intentional infliction of great bodily harm), and was sentenced by the trial court to a maximum term of ten years in prison. On this appeal from judgment of conviction, defendant contends that (1) his conviction should be reversed outright on the ground that the evidence on the issue of identification was legally insufficient or (2) he should be granted a new trial on the ground that the trial court prejudicially erred in admitting certain evidence on the issue of great bodily harm. Our examination of the record shows that the victim of the assault positively identified defendant as his assailant and that there was other evidence strongly corroborating this identification. Defense counsel, by failing to object at trial, must be deemed to have forfeited his right to have the issue of the admissibility of evidence bearing on the severity of the injury considered on appeal. We therefore affirm!
Affirmed.