Leick v. People

This writ of error is prosecuted by plaintiff in error, herein referred to as defendant, to review a statutory proceeding under which is raised the issue of his sanity subsequent to conviction of first-degree murder and prior to the infliction of the death penalty decreed by the jury in the criminal case.

For reversal defendant contends that C.R.S. ’53, 39-8-6 (4) is unconstitutional in that the operation thereof deprives him of due process of law; that the “reasonable *566doubt doctrine applicable in criminal cases should apply to this statutory civil proceeding and that the trial court erred in…