Carpenter v. People
Supreme Court of Colorado
Error to the District Court of Gunnison County. The defendants were convicted of high misdemeanor under the provisions of the s'tatute concerning mayhem (Laws 1895, 156), upon an information charging that they unlawfully and feloniously deprived the prosecuting witness of his right ear, and disfigured it, and rendered it useless.
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Error to the District Court of Gunnison County. The defendants were convicted of high misdemeanor under the provisions of the s'tatute concerning mayhem (Laws 1895, 156), upon an information charging that they unlawfully and feloniously deprived the prosecuting witness of his right ear, and disfigured it, and rendered it useless. At the time the injury complained of was inflicted upon the prosecuting witness, he and two men who were helping him were upon'the land of the defendant L. M. Carpenter, for the purpose of making some alterations in an -irrigating ditch through which the prosecuting…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Steele
The statute under which the defendants claim the right to ten peremptory challenges each is as follows:
“That the people and the accused shall he entitled, each, to fifteen (15) peremptory challenges in capital cases, and in all other cases where the punishment may he imprisonment in the penitentiary to ten (10) peremptory challenges each. And in all other criminal cases the defendant shall he allowed a peremptory challenge of three jurors. The attorney prosecuting on the part of the people shall he admitted to a peremptory challenge of the same number of jurors that the accused is entitled…
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