Maestas v. People

Joe Maestas was found guilty of murder of the'first degree and Ms punishment fixed at death. He prosecutes this writ assigning as error the insufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict.

The facts are substantially as follows: Ben Addis, a registered pharmacist, was, on September 9, 1931, engaged as a salesman, and he together with his sister, Mrs. Millie Freeman, were traveling’ in an automobile to the San Luis Valley for the purpose of soliciting orders from merchants there. They arrived at Fort Garland, Costilla county, Colorado, at about ten o’clock on the evening of September 9,…