State v. Butler

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE JAMES T. HARRISON

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered following a guilty plea to the crime of burglary in the first degree.' The defendant was sentenced to six years in prison on August 5, 1965.

We begin this defendant’s story of trouble with the law in the year 1950 although the record before us shows that his criminal record begins before that year.

In September of 1950, Ambrose Measure, the county attorney of Flathead County, filed an information charging defendant with the crime of first degree burglary. The defendant plead guilty…