CORBETT v. PEOPLE

No. 20057.

387 P.2d 409 (1963)

Joseph CORBETT, Jr., alias Walter Osborne, Plaintiff in Error, v. The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

Rehearing Denied December 30, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Erickson, H. Malcolm Mackay, Denver, for plaintiff in error.

Duke W. Dunbar, Atty. Gen., Frank E. Hickey, Deputy Atty. Gen., John E. Bush, Richard L. Eason, Asst. Attys. Gen., for defendant in error.


McWILLIAMS, Justice.

By direct information Joseph Corbett, Jr., alias Walter Osborne, was charged with the murder of Adolph Coors, III on February 9, 1960, to which charge Corbett pled not guilty. Upon trial a jury of his peers adjudged him to be guilty of murder in the first degree, fixing his punishment at life imprisonment in the State Penitentiary. By the present writ of error Corbett seeks reversal of the judgment and sentence entered thereon.

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