Garcia v. People

The plaintiff in error Lauro Garcia, hereafter designated as the defendant, was convicted of murder in the first degree. The. jury fixed his penalty at death. The deceased, C. E. Brockman, was a police officer of the City of .Fort Collins, and it stands admitted that the shot fired by the defendant was the cause of his death. One of the defenses interposed was insanity. The motion for a new trial sets forth newly discovered evidence alleged not to be cumulative of that offered along the lines the defense had been conducted, but of a separate nature, of a distinct material fact, unknown to…