Jones v. People
Supreme Court of Colorado
Error to the District Court of Arapahoe County. At the April, A. D. 1891, term of the district court of Arapahoe county, plaintiff in error was indicted for the murder of one Thomas J. Strawn. The ease was first tried in 1892, but the result of that trial does not definitely appear from this record.
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Error to the District Court of Arapahoe County. At the April, A. D. 1891, term of the district court of Arapahoe county, plaintiff in error was indicted for the murder of one Thomas J. Strawn. The ease was first tried in 1892, but the result of that trial does not definitely appear from this record. It sufficeth to know that a new trial was awarded, and the defendant again put upon trial in June, 1898. The second trial resulted in a verdict of “ guilty of murder in the second degree,” upon which a sentence of imprisonment in the penitentiary for life was imposed. From this judgment a writ of…
1Opinion of the Court
Chibe Justice Hayt
delivered the opinion, of the court.
The killing of the deceased is admitted by the defendant. It is claimed that it was done at a time when the defendant was insane, such insanity having been caused in part by a shock, produced by information reaching him going to show that his wife was unduly intimate with the deceased: that he was predisposed to insanity by heredity, and that the knowledge of his wife’s infidelity, acting upon a mind weakened by this infirmity, transmitted from his father, dethroned his reason, and rendered him incapable of distinguishing between right and…
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