State v. Miner

This is an appeal by defendant John Michael Miner from a judgment entered in the district court, Sweet Grass County, Hon. C. B. Sande, presiding. The judgment followed a jury verdict finding Miner guilty of burglary. Miner appeals.

On the night of September 7, 1974, Ullman Lumber Company in Big Timber, Montana was burglarized. Taken in the burglary were approximately $70 in cash and $1100 in checks written to Ullman Lumber Company. The testimony of witnesses indicates this chronology of events: Immediately before the burglary, Sheri Stief and Eileen Brannin, while “cruising the drag”, spotted…