People v. Lucas

Opinion by

Judge CASEBOLT.

Defendant, Larry D. Lucas, appeals the judgment of conviction entered upon a jury verdict finding him guilty of first degree murder (felony murder) and robbery. . We affirm the conviction and remand for correction of the mittimus.

While the El Paso County Department of Social Services (Department) had legal and physical custody of him, defendant, who was sixteen, ran away from a group home in Colorado Springs. Some three months thereafter, he and a group of friends began hitchhiking with the stated goal of leaving Colorado.

After traveling for three days, the group…