Short v. People
Supreme Court of Colorado
Error to the District Court of Arapahoe County. The defendants were found guilty of conspiracy to commit burglary and were sentenced to tbe penitentiary. The record discloses the following : In the district court of Arapahoe county two informations were filed against John Short, William Brown and William Gill, which are designated respectively as informations No. 1 and No. 2. There were two counts in each.
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Error to the District Court of Arapahoe County. The defendants were found guilty of conspiracy to commit burglary and were sentenced to tbe penitentiary. The record discloses the following : In the district court of Arapahoe county two informations were filed against John Short, William Brown and William Gill, which are designated respectively as informations No. 1 and No. 2. There were two counts in each. In the first count of No. 1 the defendants were charged with conspiring to burglarize without force the dwelling house of John W. Nesmith with intent to steal the personal goods of Hannah…
1Opinion of the Court
Chiee Justice Campbell
delivered the opinion of the court.
The assignments of error are argued under four heads: First, error in consolidation of the cases for trial; second, error in admitting evidence ; third, error in the giving and refusing of instructions; fourth, error in the form of verdicts as rendered.
1. Section 1452, Mills’ Ann. Stats. (Gen. Stats. 1883, sec. 945) permits the joinder in one indictment or information of several charges against any persons for the same act or transaction, which may be properly joined, instead of in separate indictments or informations, and when two or…
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