Flor v. People

Plaintiff in error, whom we hereinafter refer to as defendant, was tried for the murder of James Moore. The jury returned him guilty in the second degree and he was thereupon sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of ten to twelve years. To review that judgment this writ *405is prosecuted and defendant asks that it be made a supersedeas.

The evidence disclosed by this record justified the jury in believing that deceased had been duly commissioned a special police officer of the city of Trinidad and sent by his chief to the house where defendant resided to ascertain if violations of the liquor…