COPPINGER v. PEOPLE

No. 20400.

380 P.2d 19 (1963)

Carl Clayton COPPINGER, Plaintiff In Error, v. The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Defendant in Error.

Supreme Court of Colorado. En Banc.

March 25, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl Clayton Coppinger, plaintiff in error pro se.

Duke W. Dunbar, Atty. Gen., Frank E. Hickey, Deputy Atty. Gen., George W. Nicastro, Special Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendant in error.


DAY, Justice.

Plaintiff in error, defendant in a criminal case in the district court of Alamosa County, was convicted by a jury of obtaining goods and money by use of the confidence game. Also in the formation, under separate counts, it was related that he had been previously convicted of two prior felonies, C.R.S. '53, 39-13-1. Defendant claims error in both his conviction on the substantive offense of "confidence game" and in the proceedings under which he was sentenced...

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