Parker v. People
Supreme Court of Colorado
Error to Criminal Court of Arapahoe County. Plaintiffs in error were indicted, for several criminal offenses at the January, A. D. 1886, term of the district court of Arapahoe county, and the cases thereafter transferred to the criminal court of said county for further proceedings according to law.
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Error to Criminal Court of Arapahoe County. Plaintiffs in error were indicted, for several criminal offenses at the January, A. D. 1886, term of the district court of Arapahoe county, and the cases thereafter transferred to the criminal court of said county for further proceedings according to law. In the criminal court the cases were consolidated for trial at the request of the defendants, and a trial thereafter had of all the cases to the same jury, which resulted in a verdict of guilty in three of the cases; and a verdict of not guilty in the remainder. A motion for a new trial having been…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hayt
We will consider the questions raised by the numerous assignments of error in the order in which the same have been presented by counsel.
*157By the first assignment of error the regularity of the selection and impaneling of the grand jury finding the indictments is questioned. The only record which we have before us of the proceedings in the district court is the one made out and filed in the criminal court at the time of the change of venue from the former to the latter. This record, after showing that the district court was regularly in session at the time for the transaction of general…
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