Mora v. People
Supreme Court of Colorado
Error to the District Court of Park County. Plaintiee in error was convicted of murder of the first degree, and sentenced accordingly. He is charged in the first and second counts of the indictment with the murder of Andrew Peterson, and in the third with the murder of Neis O. Anderson, and was found guilty upon both the first and third counts.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Hayt
It appears from the evidence that Anderson and Peterson were partners in business and warm personal friends. Their occupation was that of common laborers, and as such they had found employment in various grading, mining and other camps in this state, for several years immediately prior to their death, which occurred on or about the 9th day of July, 1891.
At the time they were passing through Park county on foot, in search of work, and were last seen by any witness produced at the trial at about nine o’clock on the morning of Thursday, July 9,1891, at Como. Two days thereafter their dead bodies…
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