State v. Olsen

The HONORABLE THOMAS DIGNAN, District Judge,

sitting in place of Mr. Justice Haswell, delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction of burglary in the first degree. Appellant was charged with burglary with a prior conviction. Appellant pled true to the charge of prior conviction and after a trial the jury found him guilty of burglary in the first degree.

Appellant and his wife checked into the Lalonde Hotel in Sidney, Montana, between two and three o’clock p. m. on March 18, 1966, registered as Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Ward and were assigned room number 223.…