State v. Johnson

Following a jury trial, defendant Willie James Johnson, Jr., was found guilty on December 29, 1980, of theft, a felony, in violation of section 45-6-301(l)(a), MCA, 1978. Pursuant to that verdict, the Eighteenth Judicial District Court issued a sentence and judgment on January 12, 1981, ordering defendant to serve ten years at the Montana State Prison, Deer Lodge, Montana, and designating defendant a non-dangerous offender. Defendant now appeals from that verdict, judgment and sentence. We affirm.

While traveling from California to Oklahoma to spend Christmas with his family, Johnson “hitched”…