State v. Peschon

HONORABLE JAMES T. SHEA, District Judge,

sitting in place of MR. JUSTICE BOTTOMLY, who was absent from the State, delivered the Opinion of the Court.

On January 11, 1955, the county attorney of Blaine County, Montana, filed an information in the district court charging the defendant and appellant, Edward Peschon, with the crime of grand larceny. To this information the defendant entered a plea of not guilty. A trial was had, which resulted in a verdict finding the defendant guilty of grand larceny leaving punishment to be fixed by the court. Upon this verdict there was rendered and entered a…