Roper v. People

Clarence Alonzo Roper was charged by information in the district court of Lake county with the murder of Felix Gallegos, and convicted of voluntary manslaughter. He seeks reversal of the judgment by reason of the refusal of the trial court to give the tendered instruction hereinafter set forth.

The deceased was shot and killed by a bullet discharged from a gun held by the defendant in the latter’s tavern in Leadville on March 7, 1946. Defendant freely admitted to the police officers at the time of his arrest that he shot deceased, and on the witness stand related all of the circumstances…