PATTERSON v. PEOPLE

No. 18569.

333 P.2d 1047 (1959)

Jack Carver PATTERSON, Plaintiff in Error, v. The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Defendant in Error.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

January 12, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William O. DeSouchet, Boulder, Lindsay Fischer, John Hover, of the University of Colorado Legal Aid Clinic, on the brief, for plaintiff in error.

Duke Dunbar, Atty. Gen., Frank E. Hickey, Deputy Atty. Gen., John W. Patterson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Robert Delaney, Dist. Atty. Ninth Judicial Dist., Glenwood Springs, for defendant in error.


KNAUSS, Justice.

Plaintiff in error, to whom we will refer as defendant, was convicted of confidence game upon a jury trial and sentenced to serve a term in the state penitentiary. The statute under which conviction was had, so far as here pertinent, reads as follows:

"Brace faro, bogus checks, penalty. —Every person who shall obtain, * * * from any other person or persons, any money or property by means of or by use of brace faro, or any false or...

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