Coppinger v. People

Plaintiff in error, defendant in a criminal case in the district court of Alamosa County, was convicted by a jury of obtaining goods and money by use of the confidence game. Also in the information, under separate counts, it was related that he had been previously convicted of two prior felonies, C.R.S. ’53, 39-13-1. Defendant claims error in both his convictions on the substantive offense of confidence game and in the proceedings under which he was sentenced as an habitual criminal.

We find no merit to his assignments of error on his conviction on the confidence game charge and so make no…