MacIas v. People

Defendant in error, hereinafter referred to as defendant or as Macias, and one Elmer Gonzales were charged by direct information with the crimes of burglary (C.R.S. 1963, 40-3-5) and conspiracy to commit burglary (C.R.S. 1963, 40-7-35).

The situs of the crime was a telephone booth, the property of the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company, in the City and County of Denver. Defendant and Gonzales were observed by detectives and police officers attempting to pry open a coin box of a pay telephone in a booth in the vicinity of East 8th Ave. and Downing St., in Denver. When the officers…