State v. Casagranda

Defendant appeals from his conviction of two counts of aggravated burglary following a jury trial in the District Court of the Second Judicial District of the State of Montana, in and for the County of Silver Bow. Trial commenced on January 20, 1981, and on January 22,1981, a jury found defendant guilty of both offenses. Defendant’s motion for a new trial was denied, and this appeal follows.

Early in the morning of July 6,1980, a doctor’s office and an adjoining pharmacy were burglarized in Butte, Montana. On July 7, 1980, William Hanley was arrested in Missoula, Montana, for a parole…