PEOPLE v. HAWTHORNE

No. 26517.

548 P.2d 124 (1976)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Robert E. HAWTHORNE, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

April 5, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John P. Moore, Atty. Gen., John E. Bush, Deputy Atty. Gen., J. Stephen Phillips, Asst. Atty. Gen., Denver, for plaintiff-appellee.

Davies & Saint-Veltri, Joseph Saint-Veltri, Denver, for defendant-appellant.


ERICKSON, Justice.

The defendant, Robert E. Hawthorne, was convicted by a jury of second-degree assault, 1971 Perm.Supp., C.R.S.1963, 40-3-203(b),1 and was sentenced to the state penitentiary. He asserts two primary grounds for reversal. First, he asserts that reversible error occurred when the prosecution was allowed to impeach one of its own witnesses with a written statement which the witness gave to the police. As a second ground for...

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