State v. Holliday

The defendant in this matter appeals from a judgment entered on April 3, 1978 by the District Court upon a jury verdict of guilty of the crime of robbery.

Defendant was originally tried with three other defendants in October 1975 for the robbery and homicide of Monte Dyckman, a Safeway store employee in Hardin, Montana. The facts surrounding those crimes have been recited in detail by this Court elsewhere. See, State v. Fitzpatrick (1977), 174 Mont. 174, 569 P.2d 383. Therefore, for purposes of this appeal, they need not be exhaustively recounted here.

Briefly, the evidence adduced at…