State v. LaFontaine

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE JAMES T. HARRISON

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal from a conviction of the crime of forgery in the District Court of Lewis and Clark County. Defendant *491was sentenced to a term of twelve years in Montana state prison to run consecutively with time to be served for prior offenses. Defendant was at the time on parole from a fifteen year sentence for burglary.

From the record it appears that at about 5 p.m. on September 19, 1970, a wallet belonging to Boyd A. Andrew was stolen in Lewis and Clark County, Helena, Montana. The wallet contained an undetermined…