Ritchey v. People

At the October, 1895, term of the district court of Boulder county, the defendant J. J. Ritchey was informed against for the murder of B. E. Rhodes in said county on the 11th day *316of May, 1895. He was tried at the same term, convicted of murder of the second degree, and sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for a period of twenty years. To reverse the judgment upon this writ of error his counsel rely upon three alleged errors of the district courts

The defendant admitted the killing, and justified under a plea of self-defense. He was the owner of a tunnel and a mine in Boulder county…