Legal Opinion
State v. Peoples
New Mexico Supreme Court
Decided August 22, 1961No. 6863PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COMPTON, Chief Justice.
This is an appeal from an order invoking a suspended sentence. The record is fraught with error of a fundamental nature.
On October 31, 1958, the appellant, Mary Peoples, was sentenced to serve a term in the New Mexico Penitentiary of not less than one year nor more than five years. The sentence was then suspended by the court during her good behavior.
Thereafter, on August 2, 1960, an information was filed by the district attorney charging Mary Helen Peoples and others with the commission of a felony. On this charge, the parties were held for trial before the district…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- State v. GarciaNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1914
- Ex parte LuceroNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1917
- State ex rel. Clancy v. HallNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1917
- Local 890 of International Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers v. New Jersey Zinc Co.New Mexico Supreme Court · 1954
3Cited by15 opinions
- State v. BrusenhanNew Mexico Court of Appeals · 1968
- Tijerina v. BakerNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1968
- Blea v. CoxNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1965
- State v. GomezNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1965
- In Re Writ of Habeas Corpus of HumphreyCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1979
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