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COSTON v. PEOPLE

No. C-1485.

633 P.2d 470 (1981)

Jennerson COSTON, Petitioner, v. The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

As Modified on Denial of Rehearing September 21, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Agee, Ewing & Goldstein, Peter A. Goldstein, Colorado Springs, for petitioner.

J. D. MacFarlane, Atty. Gen., Richard F. Hennessey, Deputy Atty. Gen., Mary J. Mullarkey, Sol. Gen., Felipe V. Ponce, R. Michael Mullins, Asst. Attys. Gen., Denver, for respondent.

ROVIRA, Justice.

We granted certiorari from the Court of Appeals' decision in People v. Coston, 40 Colo.App. 205, 576 P.2d 182 (1978), to consider the claim made by the petitioner-defendant, Jennerson Coston, that the district court erred when it refused to give his tendered jury instruction on manslaughter at the trial in which he was charged with first-degree murder1 and convicted of second-degree...

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