State v. Harris

MR. JUSTICE JOHN C. HARRISON,

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

Defendant, Phillip Harris, was convicted of burglary in the first degree in the district court of the sixteenth judicial district, county of Custer, and sentenced to fourteen years, with four years suspended, in the Montana state prison. From this judgment, defendant appeals.

During the fall months of 1970, a codefendant of Harris, one Leon Meidinger, began frequenting Kelly’s Gaslite, a bar in Miles City. Working at the bar was Lila Williamson, an acquaintance of Meidinger. Meidinger expressed an interest in where the owner of…