State v. Olsen

Defendant was convicted of the crime of burglary after a jury trial in the Eighteenth Judicial District, County of Gallatin. Defendant appeals both the judgment and the sentence.

In the early morning hours of May 26, 1979, Belgrade, Montana, police officers spotted two persons acting suspiciously near a parked vehicle. As the officers approached, one person jumped into the automobile while the other fled on foot, eventually eluding police. The suspect in the car, identified as Mary Donahue, was apprehended after a high-speed chase. Later that same morning a number of chain saws were reported…