Dickens v. People

JUST after dark, on the evening of November 30th, 1915, about the hour of eight, William H. Dickens, of Longmont, Colorado, was shot to death while sitting with his wife in a room of his home in that city. The fatal shot was fired from the alley way near the house, and the bullet penetrated the window pane in front of which Mr. Dickens sat, before reaching its objective. The defendant, Rienzi C. Dickens, a son of the dead man, was indicted for the killing, charged with the crime of murder.

The evidence, without cavil or dispute, shows that, the killing was accomplished by lying in wait, that…