Watkins v. People

The plaintiff in error, defendant in a criminal case in the Denver District Court, will be referred to by name or as defendant.

He was found guilty by a jury of second degree murder, and to a judgment of conviction and a sentence of thirty to forty years in the state penitentiary he brings writ of error. In the summary of argument he cites as error the giving of certain instructions by the court, the refusal to give certain other instructions tendered by him, and the admission of evidence in two particulars.

For an understanding of Watkins’ chief assignments of error directed to the…