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PEOPLE v. CRAWFORD

No. 26439.

553 P.2d 827 (1976)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Burnice Allen CRAWFORD, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

September 7, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John P. Moore, Atty. Gen., John E. Bush, John R. Rodman, Asst. Atty. Gen., Denver, for plaintiff-appellee.

Ashen & Fogel, William L. Keating, Denver, for defendant-appellant.

LEE, Justice.

Defendant Burnice Crawford was charged with the first-degree murder of Kenneth Baxter, and the jury returned a verdict of guilty on the lesser included offense of voluntary manslaughter, C.R.S. 1963, 40-2-5.1 We affirm.

Testimony at trial revealed that defendant and decedent were both middle-aged divorced men who jointly rented an apartment. Though generally on friendly terms, they often quarreled and argued, and...

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