State v. Chavez

This is an appeal from an order of the District Court of the Twelfth Judicial District, Hill County, denying defendant’s motion to dismiss for a lack of a speedy trial, and the trial court’s ruling allowing the admission of a pre-trial photographic identification of the defendant. At trial, the jury found the defendant not guilty of burglary, and guilty of felony theft, and he was sentenced to four years in the Montana State Prison.

We affirm.

On the morning of June 15, 1983, Anton Schwan, the lessee of a steel building near the Burlington Northern railroad tracks west of Havre, Montana,…