People v. Salas

The sufficiency of the evidence and the instructions to the jury are the key issues on appeal. The defendant also claims that the failure of the trial court to require the prosecution to elect between counts was reversible error and that the concurrent sentences imposed against the defendant must be set aside. We affirm.

An incriminating web of circumstantial evidence was created by a series of criminal acts which culminated in the murders of both Russell Forrest Brenner and his wife, Evelyn. The criminal transaction involved acts which occurred at the Mile High Reporting School and at the…