Morletti v. People

Plaintiff in error (defendant below and hereinafter so designated) was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to life imprisonment. To review that judgment he brings error.

On the late afternoon of September 10, 1919, Celeste Mattavi, Gust Danielson, Fred Sund and Eric Smith, employees of The Tomboy Mines Company, were murdered at the Montana Tunnel of the Tomboy mine near Telluride in San Miguel County. They belonged to a night shift and were at the time on their way to work. Mattavi was found dead a short distance outside the tunnel and Daniel-son, Sund and Smith at different…