Legal Opinion

Johnson v. People

Supreme Court of Colorado

Decided May 4, 1970No. 23413PublishedCited by 23 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hodges

The plaintiff in error, Wilbert Johnson, who will be referred to herein as defendant, was charged and found guilty by the jury of burglary and larceny. He was sentenced to concurrent terms in the penitentiary.

By this writ of error, defendant seeks reversal of the trial court’s judgment on the grounds that the evidence was insufficient to support the convictions and that defendant’s counsel was improperly restricted in cross-examining one of the People’s witnesses. Our examination of this record reveals that these assignments of error are not supportable and we therefore affirm the trial…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Davis v. PeopleSupreme Court of Colorado · 1944
  2. State v. MoorisonWashington Supreme Court · 1953
  3. Dockerty v. PeopleSupreme Court of Colorado · 1935
  4. Duran v. PeopleSupreme Court of Colorado · 1967
  5. Courvoisier v. RaymondSupreme Court of Colorado · 1896

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3Cited by23 opinions

  1. People v. GladneySupreme Court of Colorado · 1977
  2. People v. TaylorSupreme Court of Colorado · 1976
  3. State v. HealdSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1978
  4. People v. SaizColorado Court of Appeals · 1982
  5. People v. CocaColorado Court of Appeals · 1977

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