STATE v. BUTLER

No. 11037.

417 P.2d 100 (1966)

STATE of Montana, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Jay John BUTLER, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of Montana.

Decided July 18, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

I. James Heckathorn, (argued), C. Eugene Phillips, (argued), Kalispell, for appellant.

Forrest H. Anderson, Atty. Gen., Helena, M. Dean Jellison, Kalispell, James R. Beck, argued, Helena, for respondent.


JAMES T. HARRISON, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered following a guilty plea to the crime of burglary in the first degree. The defendant was sentenced to six years in prison on August 5, 1965.

We begin this defendant's story of trouble with the law in the year 1950 although the record before us shows that his criminal record begins before that year.

In September of 1950, Ambrose Measure, the county attorney of Flathead County...

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