Cook v. People

Upon a joint information and trial of Oscar Cook and Edward Seiwald charged with murder, Cook was convicted and sentenced to be hanged. To reverse this judgment he brings the case here on error.

1. There was evidence showing that about eleven o’clock at night, March 9, 1912, two men attempted to hold up the people in, and rob the saloon of one A. J. Lloyd at Valverde in the city of Denver. In the encounter and shooting which followed, Lloyd and a patrolman named McPherson, were killed, and one of the robbers wounded. There was snow on the ground, and the night was cold. Lloyd, his wife and…