PEOPLE v. BOTHAM

No. 27525.

629 P.2d 589 (1981)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Kenneth H. BOTHAM, Jr., Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

Rehearing Denied June 29, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. D. MacFarlane, Atty. Gen., John R. Rodman, Lynne Ford, Asst. Atty. Gen., Denver, for plaintiff-appellee.

J. Gregory Walta, Colorado State Public Defender, Carol L. Gerstl, Sp. Deputy State Public Defender, Norman Mueller, Deputy State Public Defender, Denver, for defendant-appellant.


ERICKSON, Justice.

The defendant-appellant, Kenneth Botham, Jr., was charged with the first-degree murders of his wife, Patricia Botham, his neighbor, Linda Miracle, and her two sons, Chad and Troy Miracle. A jury found the defendant guilty of first-degree murder of Patricia Botham, and also returned verdicts finding the defendant guilty of three counts of second-degree murder for the deaths of Linda, Chad, and Troy Miracle.1 The trial...

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