Packer v. People
Supreme Court of Colorado
Error to the District Court of Gunnison County. This is the fifth time this case, in some form, has been here. In the district court of Hinsdale county, at the April term, 1888, five separate indictments were returned against Alfred Packer charging him respectively with the murder of Israel Swan, Shannon Wilson Bell, Frank Miller, George Noon and James Humphrey.
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Error to the District Court of Gunnison County. This is the fifth time this case, in some form, has been here. In the district court of Hinsdale county, at the April term, 1888, five separate indictments were returned against Alfred Packer charging him respectively with the murder of Israel Swan, Shannon Wilson Bell, Frank Miller, George Noon and James Humphrey. The Swan indictment was filed April 6, the other four on April 7, 1883, and on April 6, a capias was issued in the Swan case for the arrest of the defendant, and on that day he was arrested thereunder and brought into court, arraigned…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Campbell
The assignment of errors embraces many specifications, but counsel for plaintiff in error in their briefs have, as we think wisely, condensed them into the following four propositions, upon which they rely for reversal: (1) The defendant, under our statute so providing, was entitled on his application made below to be set at liberty, because he was not tried on or before the second term of the court after having been committed to jail without bail, the delay not happening on his own application; (2) the court erred in giving and refusing instructions to the jury; (8) there was error in…
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