State v. Freeman

This is an appeal by defendant, Michael Scott Freeman, from a judgment of conviction of mitigated deliberate homicide entered in the District Court, Thirteenth Judicial District, Yellowstone County. Defendant was sentenced to ten years imprisonment, with three years suspended.

Early in the morning of September 11, 1977, Kirk Nelson and two companions drove in an automobile to the home of Michael Scott Freeman. Nelson had a “bone to pick” with Freeman in that earlier that evening Nelson had been arguing with a man named Larry Foster who imputed to Freeman statements that Freeman had made to…