Mingo v. People

Defendant, J. B. Mingo, was charged and convicted of grand larceny; also, he was charged and convicted under the Habitual Criminal Statute, C.R.S. 1963, 39-13-1. He was then sentenced to the penitentiary within the statutory limits of the penalties provided for both offenses.

Defendant was one of three individuals who partici pated in the alleged larceny. Inasmuch as the record shows that one of the other participants physically removed certain currency from its repository in a supermarket cash register, it became incumbent upon the prosecution to establish that the defendant was an accessory,…