Parker v. People

Mr. Chief Justice' Francis E. Bouck

delivered the opinion of the court.

The question before us is whether the Denver district court committed prejudicial error by adjudging insufficient, on demurrer, a certain petition filed on February 21, 1941, by the defendant in a criminal case then pending in that court.

The facts set forth in the petition are the following:

Thomas W. Parker, the plaintiff in error, was convicted of assault with intent to commit murder; during proceedings on his application for probation a doubt arose concerning his sanity at the time of and after the commission of the…