State v. West

BAKES, Chief Justice.

Defendant appellant West entered a plea of guilty to a charge of malicious destruction of property in excess of $1,000 and was sentenced to an indeterminate term in the Idaho State Penitentiary not to exceed five years. West appeals from that sentence and from the trial court’s denial of a motion to reconsider the sentence.

The record discloses that in October of 1978 the defendant and two other individuals stole a 1978 pickup in Jerome County and drove it into the mountains. The defendant and his companion thereafter proceeded to go on a four day spree. They broke into a…