State v. Blair

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE JAMES T. HARRISON

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

Appeal by defendant Thomas Blair from the District Court of the Sixteenth Judicial District, wherein he was convicted of the crime of assault in the first degree with intent to commit a felony upon the person of a human being, to wit: Bud Moulette, by shooting and injuring him with a shotgun.

The testimony given by the defendant and the complaining witness, Moulette, conflicts at nearly every point. A resume of the occurrence follows:

The stage is set in the Chalk Buttes country of southeastern Montana between Broadus and…