Heller v. People
Supreme Court of Colorado
Error to the Court of Appeals. Plaintiff in error was indicted at the January, A. D. 1890, term of the district court of Arapahoe county for the crime of embezzlement. The indictment contains four counts.
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Error to the Court of Appeals. Plaintiff in error was indicted at the January, A. D. 1890, term of the district court of Arapahoe county for the crime of embezzlement. The indictment contains four counts. In the first count, this being the one upon which the defendant was convicted and sentenced, he is charged with being the financial agent of one Caroline Spindler for the purpose, among other things, of borrowing and loaning money, and that while such financial agent, and by the virtue of his agency and the confidential relation existing between him and Caroline Spindler, he received from…
1Opinion of the Court
Chiee Justice Hayt
delivered the opinion of the court.
As there are seventy errors assigned to the rulings of the district court, nearly all of which assignments of error are absolutely without merit and are abandoned in this court, it should not be a matter of surprise that the court of appeals iti its opinion as filed gave but slight consideration to matters to which our attention has been particularly invited, and which we think necessitate a reversal of the judgment of both the court of appeals and the district court.
In so far as the errors assigned are discussed at length by the court of…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Smith v. PeopleSupreme Court of Colorado · 1885
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- Hillen v. PeopleSupreme Court of Colorado · 1915
- Boyles v. PeopleSupreme Court of Colorado · 1931
- People v. WilkinsonColorado Court of Appeals · 1976
- Herren v. PeopleSupreme Court of Colorado · 1900
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