Stitt v. People

The defendant was tried, and, by the jury, found guilty of the murder of Carl Liebers. He was sentenced by the court to life imprisonment in the state penitentiary. The story brought up in this record reads more like an imaginary episode, than an actual occurrence in real life. On September 20, 1920, about 11 o’clock in the forenoon, Carl Liebers, a salesman of silos, was driving his automobile on a public highway near the town of Henderson in Adams county. He was traveling south from Henderson and towards the city of Denver. In the car with him was another man. The highway runs parallel to,…