Bizup v. Tinsley

John Bizup, Jr., was charged with having “willfully and of his premeditated malice aforethought” killed one Roy Don Bussey. He was convicted upon that charge and sentenced to death. The judgment and sentence were affirmed by this Court. Bizup v. People, 150 Colo. 214, 371 P.2d 786. Thereafter Bizup obtained several stays of execution while he pursued, without success, post-conviction remedies in the federal courts. He is now before this Court on writ of error from the judgment of the trial court denying his petition for a writ of habeas corpus.

Bizup contends (1) that the trial court erred in…