Miller v. People

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter designated as the defendant, was convicted of an attempt to rob a mail car on the Union Pacific Railroad at Sandown, about six miles east of Denver. The attempted robbery occurred a little after nine o’clock P. M. on November 16, 1920. The train was stopped at the station named, and when the engineer descended from his cab he was confronted by a man with a revolver who immediately ordered him to put up his hands. Another man, who kept some distance away from the engine, was implicated in the hold-up. The first man mentioned was wounded by a shot fired by…