READ v. PEOPLE

No. 16466.

221 P.2d 1070 (1950)

122 Colo. 308

READ v. PEOPLE.

Supreme Court of Colorado, en Banc.

August 21, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John L. Schweigert, Denver, E. U. Sandoval, Walsenburg, Raphael J. Moses, Alamosa, for plaintiff in error.

John W. Metzger, Atty. Gen., and Raymond B. Danks, Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendant in error.


HOLLAND, Justice.

This is a review of a third trial on an information filed September 30, 1945, charging the defendant with the murder of her nine-month old child, Margaret Karol Read. Within thirty days, trial was had, resulting in a verdict of second degree murder. It is said in the briefs before us in this case, that the trial judge, in granting the motion for a new trial emphatically stated pointed reasons for so doing.

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