Court Opinion

ID: 9510005
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-06 21:51:24.29953+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:07:55.453257
License: Public Domain

JUSTICE NELSON
specially concurs.
I agree with the result of our opinion — i.e. that there was sufficient circumstantial evidence to sustain Treible’s conviction of felony theft. I write separately, however, out of my concern that any implication be drawn from our opinion that felony theft is, in fact, a lesser included offense of burglary. On appeal Treible did not challenge the status of felony theft as a lesser included offense of burglary, and, accordingly, we have not ruled on that issue. Whether felony theft is a lesser included offense of burglary under § 46-1-202(8), MCA, and under the tests enunciated in the case law remains to be decided in some future case, and our opinion here should not be read as having decided that issue one way or the other.