State v. Nelson

MR. JUSTICE JOHN C. HARRISON

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

The defendant was convicted of first degree murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment. He appeals from the judgment of conviction and in his specifications of error raises the following questions:

1. Did the district court err in refusing the defendant’s motion to strike certain testimony?

2. Were the defendant’s admissions and confessions properly admitted into evidence ?

The defendant, Larry LaYerne Nelson, nineteen years of age, left his home in Great Falls, Montana, to seek employment in another area and located a job as a…