Jabich v. People

June 11, 1913, plaintiff in error was convicted of murder of the first degree for killing James Cleary on February 27, 1913-. They were miners, and the homicide occurred in the shafthouse pi a mine at Leadville, death resulting from two wounds inflicted with a miner’s candle-stick, one on the breast, the other in the back. Prior to his employment at the mine, defendant had purchased a candle-stick on which he filed his initial and before the killing had traded it to one Lute Kellog. The morning of the homicide, the men met, friendly, with other miners in the dry-room, preparatory to going-…