Dolan v. People

* Mr. Justice Moore

delivered the opinion of the Court.

In an information filed in the district court of the City and County of Denver it was alleged that on the 23rd day of November 1964 John Myles Dolan “did feloniously, wilfully, and of his premeditated malice aforethought kill and murder one Jane Wood Dolan.” He entered a plea of not guilty and also a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity. The last mentioned plea was subsequently withdrawn and the action went to trial on the not guilty plea. The jury returned a verdict of guilty on the charge of first degree murder and fixed the penalty…