Medina v. People

Plaintiff in error, who will be referred to as defendant, was found guilty of a charge of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to do great bodily injury, and sentenced to a term in the state penitentiary. He brings the case here on writ of error.

It appears from the record that on September 25, 1954, defendant and Jack Garcia, together with a number of other persons were engaged in a dice game near a pool-hall in Lariat, a community just south of Monte Vista, Colorado.

Gilbert Lopez had gone to Lariat to get his brother, and as they arrived at the place where the dice game was in progress,…