Legal Opinion
Young v. People
Supreme Court of Colorado
Decided September 27, 1971No. 22725PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Lee
John Major Young, Jr., also known as Frankie Saunders, was convicted in the District Court of El Paso County of first-degree murder and sentenced to death.
The homicide arose out of an attempted robbery of a filling station in Colorado Springs, perpetrated by Young and two confederates, Nathan Whitmore and Joseph Weldon Mitchell. Each was charged in separate informations with first-degree murder.
Mitchell was convicted in a separate trial and sentenced to life imprisonment. His conviction was affirmed in Mitchell v. People, 173 Colo. 217, 476 P.2d 1000. The summary of facts as reported in that…
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