PEOPLE v. MITCHELL

No. 90CA0247.

829 P.2d 409 (1991)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Vernell MITCHELL, Defendant-Appellant.

Colorado Court of Appeals, Div. II.

Rehearing Denied December 12, 1991.

Certiorari Denied May 11, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gale A. Norton, Atty. Gen., Raymond T. Slaughter, Chief Deputy Atty. Gen., Timothy M. Tymkovich, Sol. Gen., Robert Mark Russel, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Denver, for plaintiff-appellee.

Richard M. Crane, Denver, for defendant-appellant.


Opinion by Judge METZGER.

Defendant, Vernell Mitchell, appeals two judgments of conviction for first-degree murder entered on a jury verdict. We affirm.

At approximately 1:30 a.m., on April 23, 1978, a neighbor of Linda Gillespie and Gregory McGuire awoke to the sound of five or six gunshots, but did not investigate further. Later that morning, the bodies of Linda and Gregory were found under a bridge nearby. Both had been shot with a.38 caliber handgun.<...

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