State v. Howard

Leslie Howard was charged in Yellowstone County with attempted homicide, aggravated kidnapping and sexual intercourse without consent. He was tried by a jury and on April 11, 1980, convicted of the lesser included offenses of aggravated assault and kidnapping. He was sentenced to concurrent terms of ten and twenty years at Montana State Prison and was designated a dangerous offender. The dangerous designation was removed by the Sentence Review Division. Howard appeals his conviction. We affirm.

The testimony of the victim and defendant was conflicting, and the verdict indicates that the jury…