PEOPLE v. BROWN

No. 26408.

555 P.2d 1163 (1976)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Terry Lee BROWN, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Colorado, In Department.

November 8, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John D. MacFarlane, Atty. Gen., Edward G. Donovan, Sol. Gen., Jean Dubofsky, Deputy Atty. Gen., Dale Tooley, Dist. Atty., Donald Eberle, Deputy Dist. Atty., Brooke Wunnicke, Chief App. Deputy Dist. Atty., Denver, for plaintiff-appellee.

Rollie R. Rogers, Colorado State Public Defender, James F. Dumas, Jr., Chief Deputy State Public Defender, Dorian E. Welch, Deputy State Public Defender, Denver, for defendant-appellant.


ERICKSON, Justice.

The defendant was charged with first-degree assault (1971 Perm.Supp., C.R.S.1963, 40-3-202),1 and first-degree arson (1971 Perm.Supp., C.R.S.1963, 40-4-102).2 He was convicted by a jury of first-degree assault and sentenced to the Colorado state penitentiary. The undisputed evidence is that the defendant doused his wife with gasoline and struck a match to her clothing. As a result, she was...

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