Legal Opinion
Washington v. People
Supreme Court of Colorado
Decided September 13, 1965No. 21244PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Pringle
The defendant, Larry Washington, brings writ of error from a judgment entered upon a jury verdict finding him guilty of murder in the second degree of one Henry Vigil.
The defendant is a full-blooded Ute Indian. On Thursday, October 11, 1962, he was living in Towaoc, Colorado, the headquarters of the Ute Mountain Tribe. During the morning of that day, while in Towaoc, he drank a quart of wine. Some time before noon, the defendant, Raymond Frost, Rosemary Mills and Washington’s sister, Mary Ellen Washington, drove to Cortez, Colorado, to wash his laundry. When they left Cortez, they drove to…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Escobedo v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
- Tate v. PeopleSupreme Court of Colorado · 1952
- Ingles v. PeopleSupreme Court of Colorado · 1933
- Moya v. PeopleSupreme Court of Colorado · 1930
- Honda v. PeopleSupreme Court of Colorado · 1943
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3Cited by40 opinions
- Clarence T. Gladden, Warden, Oregon State Penitentiary v. William Edward UnsworthCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1968
- Hampton v. PeopleSupreme Court of Colorado · 1970
- People v. MarquezSupreme Court of Colorado · 1984
- Mathis v. PeopleSupreme Court of Colorado · 1968
- Hinton v. PeopleSupreme Court of Colorado · 1969
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