GALLEGOS v. PEOPLE

No. 17901.

316 P.2d 884 (1957)

Gabriel Ray GALLEGOS, Plaintiff in Error, v. The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Defendant in Error.

Supreme Court of Colorado. En Banc.

October 28, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman E. Cobb, Bert A. Gallegos, Denver, for plaintiff in error.

Duke W. Dunbar, Atty. Gen., Frank E. Hickey, Deputy Atty. Gen., John W. Patterson, Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendant in error.


HALL, Justice.

The plaintiff in error, defendant below, and referred to herein as defendant, was tried in the district court in Denver on an information charging him with the crime of murder.

The jury found the defendant guilty of murder in the first degree and fixed the penalty at life imprisonment.

Defendant assigns as grounds for reversal twenty alleged errors of the trial court. We take note of only one.

The trial court submitted the case...

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