PEOPLE v. CORNELISON

No. 77-626.

616 P.2d 173 (1980)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Roy O. CORNELISON, Defendant-Appellant.

Colorado Court of Appeals, Div. III.

Rehearing Denied July 3, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert N. Miller, Dist. Atty., Elizabeth Strobel, Deputy Dist. Atty., Greeley, for plaintiff-appellee.

J. Gregory Walta, Colorado State Public Defender, Margaret L. O'Leary, Deputy State Public Defender, Denver, for defendant-appellant.


PIERCE, Judge.

Defendant was charged with and convicted of second degree murder. He appeals and we affirm.

Testimony at trial disclosed that defendant was employed by his victim as a sheepherder and that defendant lived in a small trailer on land which had been rented as pasture land for the sheep. On the day of the killing, the victim was called by the owner of the land and was told that no one was tending the sheep. The victim and his wife then drove to...

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