Ryan v. People

The defendant, William L. Ryan, was convicted in the District Court of Larimer County, of murder in the first, degree, with penalty fixed at death. The victim, Newton Crose, was an attorney, with offices in the Avery Building in Fort Collins, where the tragedy occurred on the 14th day of August, 1914, and as such had for several years acted for the mother of the defendant, and also for the defendant himself. The defense was insanity.

That part of Instruction No. 16, to the giving of which objection was made and exception reserved, reads as follows:

“An insane delusion which will alone suffice…