State v. Bloor
Montana Supreme Court
Appeal from District Court, Lewis and Clarke County. II. C. Smith, Judge. Statement of the case by the justice delivering the opinion. Defendant was indicted for the crime of secreting a public record. He entered a plea of not guilty, was tried and convicted, and appeals from the judgment and from an order denying a motion for a new trial.
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Appeal from District Court, Lewis and Clarke County. II. C. Smith, Judge. Statement of the case by the justice delivering the opinion. Defendant was indicted for the crime of secreting a public record. He entered a plea of not guilty, was tried and convicted, and appeals from the judgment and from an order denying a motion for a new trial. The indictment, omitting the mere formal introductory parts, is as follows : “The grand jurors of the grand jury '* * * do accuse John Bloor, late of the said county of Lewis and Clarke, of the crime of secreting a public record, committed on the 4th day of…
1Opinion of the CourtHunt, J.
—-The defendant urges that he was entitled to an acquittal because (1) there is no evidence on the part of the state that the bill in question came into defendant’s hands by virtue of defendant’s official position; because (2) there is no evidence that the defendant secreted the bill; because (3) there is no evidence that, if he secreted the bill, it was done for any illegal purpose.
The record is very voluminous, and we shall not encumber this opinion by reciting the evidence at length. The following material facts appeared : Defendant was the duly qualified and acting secretary of the Senate…
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