Huffman v. People

At a jury trial, in the district court of Huerfano county, Colorado, beginning February 19, 1934, Huffman, the plaintiff in error, was convicted on an information charging murder in the first degree, and the jury fixed the penalty at imprisonment for life. He assigns error and will be referred to herein as the defendant.

The defendant and deceased, Lawrence Belloni, resided at Gardner, Colorado, a small hamlet about 30 miles from Walsenburg, the county seat and place of the trial. The defendant supported a wife and three small children as a trapper of coyotes and other wild animals. Sometime…