Gallegos v. People

The plaintiff in error, defendant below, and referred to herein as defendant, was tried in the district court in Denver on an information charging him with the crime of murder.

The jury found the defendant guilty of murder in the first degree and fixed the penalty at life imprisonment.

Defendant assigns as grounds for reversal twenty alleged errors of the trial court. We take note of only one.

The trial court submitted the case to the jury on instructions covering murder in the first degree .only and submitted to the jury only three forms of verdict, .(1) not guilty, (2) guilty of murder in the…