Rosier v. People

Richard Lacy Rosier, defendant below and plaintiff in error here, was convicted of the crime of assault with intent to “kill and murder” one Richard Allen Shanahan and sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of years. He is here by writ of error, seeking a reversal.

Herein we will refer to Richard Lacy Rosier as defendant and to Richard Allen Shanahan by name or as prosecuting witness.

The evidence for the prosecution may be thus summarized: The offense was committed in Teller county Colorado. Shanahan, the complaining witness, a young man of about eighteen years of age, had attended a show in…