State v. Mesler

This case comes on appeal from an order of the District Court, Eighth Judicial District, Cascade County, denying James I. Mesler’s petition for post conviction relief. We affirm.

On the morning of May 14, 1979, Mesler pointed a gun at a clerk in the Super America station in Great Falls and took less than $50 from the cash register. Within fifteen minutes of the robbery, Mesler was apprehended and taken back to the Super America station where the clerk identified him as the man who had robbed him at gunpoint. Mesler had been released from Idaho State Prison on parole eight days prior to the…