Cargill v. People

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was sentenced, on a verdict of guilty of burglary, to a term of six to eight years in the penitentiary. To review that judgment he prosecutes this writ.

The crime charged was the burglary of the drug store of one Bissell, in Colorado Springs on the night of December 21, 1921. The principal witness for the people was one DeMasters, an accomplice brought from the state penitentiary, where he was then serving sentence for the offense. He was permitted to testify that about one month prior to the commission of the crime under investigation…