Smith v. People

Plaintiff in error, to whom we hereinafter refer as defendant, was named defendant in an information filed in the District Court of the City and County of Denver in which it was alleged that defendant on September 30, 1946, “did unlawfully, feloniously, wilfully, deliberately, and of his premeditated malice aforethought, kill and murder one Dr. James Mullen.”

Defendant entered.his plea of not guilty “by reason of insanity at the time, since and now.” Trial of the issues resulted in a verdict of guilty of murder of the first degree with the penalty fixed at imprisonment for life. Motion for new…