State v. Mitchell

delivered.

Defendant, Harold W. Mitchell, Jr., appeals his convictions of felony criminal mischief and solicitation entered in the Lake County District Court, the Honorable John M. McCarvel presiding.

Early in the morning of October 30, 1977, the defendant’s mobile home and its contents were destroyed by fire. The property was located in a rural subdivision near St. Ignatius, Montana. The next day a juvenile, John-T. Hammond, contacted the Lake County sheriff’s office and told them that Mitchell had recently purchased a $25,000 fire insurance policy on the trailer home. Hammond further stated…