Opinion
Nos. 42206, 42983.
December 15, 1972.
Criminal law — assault conviction — claims without merit.
Appeal by Maurice E. Hardie from a judgment of the Dakota County District Court, Robert J. Breunig, Judge, whereby he was convicted of aggravated assault, and from an order, John B. Friedrich, Judge, denying his petition for postconviction relief. Affirmed.
C. Paul Jones, State Public Defender, and Patricia L. Belois, Assistant State Public Defender, for appellant.
Warren Spannaus, Attorney General, J. Jerome Kluck, County Attorney, and George L. May and Thomas Van Horn, Assistant County Attorneys, for respondent.
Heard before Knutson, C. J., and Rogosheske, Peterson, and Schultz, JJ.
Defendant, convicted of aggravated assault, Minn. St. 1969, § 609.225, subd. 2, contends on appeal from the conviction and from the district court's order denying his petition for postconviction relief that (1) he should be discharged from custody because the state violated his right to a speedy trial, or (2) he should be permitted to withdraw his guilty plea upon which the conviction was based because, among other things, he was pressured into making the plea. After a careful review of the record, we conclude that neither contention has merit since the contrary findings on each issue by the postconviction court are amply sustained by the evidence.
Affirmed.
MR. JUSTICE TODD took no part in the consideration or decision of this case.