State v. French

This is an appeal by defendant from a second degree murder conviction entered in the district court, Yellowstone County, and from that court’s denial of his motion for a new trial.

This Court previously granted a writ of supervisory control relating to matters raised prior to the trial of this case, but involving some of the issues now raised on appeal. See State ex rel. Krutzfeldt v. District Court, 163 Mont. 164, 515 P.2d 1312.

On March 5, 1973, Douglas Fleming was shot and killed in the Olive Hotel Lounge in Miles City, Montana. Fleming and defendant, William E. French, Jr., had been engaged…