Hooker v. People

Stanley R. Hooker, hereinafter referred to as the defendant, seeks review by writ of error of a criminal conviction suffered by him in 1950 in the Denver District Court. In our view the defendant failed to make timely application to this Court for issuance of the writ of error, and accordingly the writ must now be dismissed. A bit of chronology will demonstrate why.

On or about December 6, 1950 the defendant was sentenced by the Denver District Court to a term of from sixteen to twenty years in the state penitentiary upon his conviction on the charge of confidence game. Thereafter the…