Case Name: STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. Daniel Carl TAYLOR, Appellant
Court: Minnesota Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Minnesota
Decision Date: 1978-03-17
Citations: 264 N.W.2d 157
Docket Number: No. 47347
Parties: STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. Daniel Carl TAYLOR, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: North Western Reporter 2d
Volume: 264
Pages: 157–160

Head Matter:
STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. Daniel Carl TAYLOR, Appellant.
No. 47347.
Supreme Court of Minnesota.
March 17, 1978.
C. Paul Jones, Public Defender, Robert E. Oliphant, Asst. Public Defender, Minneapolis, for appellant.
Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., St. Paul, Gary W. Flakne, County Atty., Vernon E. Bergstrom, Chief, App. Div., David W. Larson and Phebe S. Haugen and Lee Barry, Asst. County Attys., Minneapolis, for respondent.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Defendant was found guilty by. a district court jury of a charge of making terroristic threats in violation of Minn.St. 609.713, and was sentenced by the trial court to a limited maximum term of 1 year and 1 day in prison. The sole issue on this appeal from judgment of conviction and from an order denying defendant's motion for a new trial is whether the trial court prejudicially erred in permitting the state to elicit on cross-examination of defendant that approximately 6 years earlier, when he was 20 years old, he had been convicted in Iowa of possessing marijuana.
While we agree with defendant that the crime arguably had very little relevance to the truth-seeking process or to defendant's credibility as a witness, we do not think this is a case like State v. Stewart, 297 Minn. 57, 209 N.W.2d 913 (1973), where the interests of justice warrant granting defendant a new trial on this ground.
We note in passing that the issue of impeachment by prior conviction is now governed by Rule 609, Rules of Evidence, effective July 1, 1977.
Affirmed.