People v. Smith

Edward Lee Smith has appealed his conviction and the sentence of life imprisonment that followed a jury verdict. An information charging the defendant with murder (C.R.S. 1963, 40-2-3) was filed in the district court of El Paso County On October 27, 1969. The evidence which supports his conviction is largely circumstantial. More than forty witnesses were called in the course of the trial, and the sufficiency of the evidence to support the jury’s verdict is the primary issue. The record convinces us that the trial court properly denied the defendant’s motion for judgment of acquittal and…