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PEOPLE v. SMITH

No. 24907.

500 P.2d 1177 (1972)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Edward Lee SMITH, a/k/a James E. Fitzgerald, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

September 18, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Duke W. Dunbar, Atty. Gen., John P. Moore, Deputy Atty. Gen., Eugene C. Cavaliere, Asst. Atty. Gen., Denver, for plaintiff-appellee.

Rollie R. Rogers, State Public Defender, J. D. MacFarlane, Chief Deputy State Public Defender, Thomas M. Van Cleave III, Deputy State Public Defender, Denver, for defendant-appellant.

ERICKSON, Justice.

Edward Lee Smith has appealed his conviction and the sentence of life imprisonment that followed a jury verdict. An information charging the defendant with murder (C.R.S.1963, 40-2-3) was filed in the district court of El Paso County on October 27, 1969. The evidence which supports his conviction is largely circumstantial. More than forty witnesses were called in the course of the trial, and the sufficiency of the evidence to support the jury's...

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