Legal Opinion
Garrison v. People
Supreme Court of Colorado
Decided January 28, 1963No. 20491PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McWilliams
Sylvester Lee Garrison was charged by direct information with murder of one Mort Freelander on April 26, 1958, in Denver. On arraignment he pled “not guilty” and “not guilty by reason of insanity at the time of the alleged commission of the crime and since.”
On November 27, 1959, a jury returned two verdicts, one finding Garrison sane at the time of the alleged commission of the crime, and the second adjudging him to be guilty of first degree murder and fixing the penalty at death.
Motion for new trial was filed in apt time, argued and then denied, and on January 29, 1960, formal judgment and…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Garrison v. PeopleSupreme Court of Colorado · 1961
- Leick v. PeopleSupreme Court of Colorado · 1959
3Cited by8 opinions
- People v. WelshSupreme Court of Colorado · 2003
- Jones v. DISTRICT COURT IN AND FOR TWENTY-FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICTSupreme Court of Colorado · 1980
- People v. GilesSupreme Court of Colorado · 1976
- Sylvester Lee Garrison v. Wayne Patterson, Warden, Colorado State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1969
- People v. GalimanisColorado Court of Appeals · 1997
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