State v. Hall

This is an appeal from a judgment entered in the district court, Lincoln County, on a jury verdict finding the defendant guilty of grand larceny.

Sometime during the weekend of August 17 to August 20, 1973, a food storage trailer and cookhouse of the Canyon Logging Company, where defendant Joseph Theron Hall had been employed as a cook for some time, were broken into and a large quantity of foodstuffs taken. At the time of this break in the camp, located at Bunker Hill near Eureka, Montana, was closed due to fire conditions in the area.

The break in was discovered on August 20, 1973, by the…