State v. Walton

This is an appeal from a jury verdict in the District Court of the Seventh Judicial District in and for McCone County, Montana. The defendant was found guilty of a single felony count of conspiracy to commit sale of dangerous drugs and was sentenced to three years suspended with conditions, in the Montana State Prison, and fined $8,000. We affirm.

The appellant, John Walton (Walton), his wife Ethel, and two of their sons, Fred and John Jay, were charged with two felony counts of sale (growing), conspiracy to sell and solicitation to sell dangerous drugs. The allegation was that Walton and the…