Garvey's Case
Supreme Court of Colorado
In Supreme Court. Application for release from penitentiary on habeas corpus.
1Opinion of the Court
Beck, O. J.
The petitioner was indicted for the murder of one George Wolf, alleged to have been perpetrated on the 23d day of May, 1880. The indictment was found by the grand jury on the 15th day of March, 1881, on which he was tried at the special November term of the district court of Arapahoe county, 1881, found “guilty of murder as charged in the indictment,” and sentenced to imprisonment for life in the state penitentiary.
A writ of error to the judgment was prosecuted to this court, and at the April term, 1883, we reversed the judgment and remanded the cause, for the reason that, after…
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