DeBord v. People

The plaintiff in error (defendant below) on the 7th of April, 1899, in the county of Saguache committed an assault upon one H. C. Burton. On the same day he voluntarily went before Dewit C. Travis, a justice of the peace of that county, and swore to a complaint charging himself with such assault, thereby confessing his guilt; whereupon the justice heard his testimony only, and sentenced him to pay a fine of $3.00 and costs, which was at once paid.

Upon the same day, and, it seems, after the.Travis case was initiated, Burton, the one assaulted, went before another justice of the peace of that…