eBook details
- Title: State v. Rindal
- Author : Supreme Court of Montana
- Release Date : January 19, 1965
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 55 KB
Description
The defendant, John O. Rindal, was charged with the wilful taking of an air compressor and a welder. He was convicted and sentenced to five years in the state prison. All but the first 45 days of the sentence was suspended. The alleged crime occurred in the early morning hours of August 5, 1962, near Roy, Montana. The defendant and an acquaintance, Donald Brekke, had been engaged in drinking and playing cards in the Roy bar from early the previous afternoon until about 2:00 oclock in the morning. They then drove to a nearby missile site where they saw the air compressor and welder. The defendant testified that they had driven there with the intention of taking something from the site as a trick on a certain Fuller-Webb Company. Brekke testified that the defendant knew the air compressor and welder were there and expressed a desire to have them for his own use. In any event, the two men returned to Roy where they procured two trucks from relatives of the defendant and then went back to the missile site and hauled away the two items. Brekke took the air compressor with one truck, the defendant took the welder with the other. They concealed both pieces of equipment in a coulee on the property of one, Robert Fink. A bulldozer standing close by, owned by the defendant, was used to cover the items with trees and dirt. Testimony conflicts as to which one of the men operated the bulldozer.