State v. Campbell

The defendant was tried for the crime of theft by a jury in Silver Bow County, Judge Freebourn presiding. From a verdict of guilty and the court’s admission of certain hearsay evidence, he appeals.

On February 2, 1976, Butte police officers entered a residence at 1112 South Main Street in Butte pursuant to a search warrant based on information supplied by Dale Nix. Nix, an informant for the police, was the lessee of the residence at the address named in the search warrant. No one was at home at the time the police entered the residence, but the defendant’s wife, Cindy and sister, Barbara…