From ihallenius ihallenius@madison.mt.gov

When entering offenses for a booking, it requires an Offense Code, but does not automatically fill in the code when a statute is added (such as theft, burglary, etc). It will be very difficult and error-prone if we rely on our field officers to properly input the correct offense code which correlates with the proper statute. Since the statutes are already cross-linked with the offense codes in the statute table, it should automatically pull that information from the statute table.