State v. Warwick

MR. JUSTICE JOHN C. HARRISON

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This appeal is from a conviction of murder in the first degree. Defendant was tried by a jury in the district court of the eighteenth judicial district, Gallatin County, found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment.

At about the hour of 8:30 a.m. on December 23, 1964, Mr. Earl Plum, an employee of Glacier Mountain Cheese Co., Gallatin Gateway, while traveling along Cottonwood Road, south of Bozeman, came upon the scantily clad body of a young woman. Plum immediately called the sheriff of Gallatin County, Con McClurg, and then…