State v. Meidinger

MR. JUSTICE JOHN C. HARRISON

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal by defendant Leon Meidinger from a conviction of first degree burglary in the district court of the sixteenth judicial district, county of Custer.

The facts of the instant case are essentially the same as those in the case of State v. Harris, 159 Mont. 425, 498 P.2d 1222, where this Court affirmed the first degree burglary conviction of Meidinger’s codefendant, Philip Harris.

During the fall months of 1970, Leon Meidinger began frequenting Kelly’s Gaslite, a bar in Miles City. Working at the bar was one Lila…