Fleagle v. the People

This is a companion case to Abshier v. People, 87 Colo. 507, 289 Pac. 1081, and Royston v. People, 87 Colo. 529, 289 Pac. 1077. The three cases should be read together.

The defendant, Ralph Fleagle, was tried on a plea of guilty, convicted and sentenced to hang for the murder of A. N. Parrish, committed on May 23, 1928, while he and three confederates, Abshier, Royston and one Jake Fleagle, were engaged in the act of robbing the First National Bank of Lamar, Colorado, of which A. N. Parrish, deceased, was then president.

Eye-witnesses to the robbery and murder at Lamar who testified in the…