State v. Upton

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a pool cue swung like a baseball bat at a victim’s head constituted a dangerous weapon
• concluding that evidence that the defendant’s action of swinging a pool cue “like a baseball bat” and hitting the victim in the head, causing a severe cut, was sufficient to support his conviction of assault with a dangerous weapon
• affirming defendant’s assault-with-a-dangerous-weapon conviction when evidence showed that he took a “pool cue by the thin end and, swinging it like a baseball bat, hit [the victim] in the head, causing a severe cut”

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Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Perkins
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1984-08-24· cited 27×
• State v. Lund
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 1991-07-16· cited 11×
• State v. Gist
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1984-12-14· cited 10×
• State v. Weyaus
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2013-09-03
• State of Minnesota, Respondent/Cross-Appellant v. David Darnell Jones, Jr., Appellant/Cross-Respondent
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2024-04-03

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Brouillette
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1979-10-26· cited 133×
• State v. Leecy
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1980-05-16· cited 31×
• State v. Mendoza
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1980-09-05· cited 16×