State v. Shaw

The defendant was found guilty of felony theft following a jury trial in the McCone County District Court. The defendant appeals from the District Court’s denial of his motion for a new trial.

At the trial, Jacque Kutzler and James Norwood, who allegedly had been with the defendant at the time the crime was committed, testified for the prosecution. They stated that they had accompanied the defendant in his Suburban from Glendive, Montana, to Circle, Montana, on the evening of March 2, 1981, and that the three of them were at the Traveller’s Inn in Circle from about 10:00 p.m. until the bar…