Peterson v. People

We will refer to the plaintiff in error Peterson. by name or as defendant, and to the defendant in error as the People.

Peterson was convicted of the burglary of a building owned by the International Union of Operating Engineers, Local No, 9, in Grand Junction, Colorado. He is here by writ of error from that conviction.

The testimony of the People’s witnesses established that at about noon on February 2, 1962, the defendant was observed in front of the building in question. His activities were described in the following manner by James Cary, who watched from his home across the street from the…