Bailey v. People

Joseph E. Bailey, defendant in error, was convicted in the district court of the city and county of Denver, on the charge of the murder of Eugene H. Smith. The verdict was that of murder in the first degree. The wife of Smith was a sister of the defendant Bailey. The homicide occurred bn the 18th day of July, 1910. It appears that because of a quarrel between Smith and his wife, and of the violent beating and abuse of her by Smith on the 15th day of' July, the wife with her two children, left home and took refuge with her mother at the house where the defendant and his wife resided. This…