(DOWNLOAD) "State v. Ronald Leroy Steeves" by Supreme Court of Minnesota # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: State v. Ronald Leroy Steeves
- Author : Supreme Court of Minnesota
- Release Date : January 23, 1968
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 61 KB
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This is an appeal from a judgment entered on a verdict returned against defendant, Ronald LeRoy Steeves, in Hennepin County
District Court May 24, 1963. The jury found Steeves, a 19-year-old Minneapolis newspaper dispatcher, guilty of first-degree
murder in the February 27, 1963, slaying of 15-year-old Mary Bell. It appears from the record that defendant dropped out of Minneapolis South High during his ninth grade and, at the time
of his arrest, was on parole from the St. Cloud Reformatory. 1 The record shows that defendant first met Pat (Patricia)
Bell, Mary's 16-year-old sister, in July 1962; that they dated steadily for several months against the wishes of Pat's parents,
who opposed the match because of differences in religion; that in November 1962 they drove to South Dakota, where they made
an unsuccessful attempt to marry; and that Pat's father later forbade them to see one another. During the course of his dating
Pat, defendant became well acquainted with Mary Bell. He and Pat "double-dated" with Mary and a boy friend, and on occasions
defendant would consent to take Mary "practice driving."