People v. Johnson

RULAND, Judge.

Defendant, Joan Johnson, appeals her conviction by a jury of criminal solicitation to commit first degree murder. We affirm.

The prosecution’s evidence indicated the following series of events occurred. On May 21, 1976, while traveling through Kansas, the defendant met Sgt. Richard Jollie, a military policeman, while conversing over a “CB” radio. The two carried on a conversation with several other motorists as they traveled towards Colorado, and eventually stopped for lunch together. Later, as the group neared Denver, Jollie and another member of the group, an air policeman,…