Legal Opinion
People v. Corbett
Supreme Court of Colorado
Decided January 10, 1983No. 81SA533PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROVIRA, Justice.
The People appeal the dismissal of charges of sexual assault on a child.1 The *688Chaffee County District Court concluded at the close of the preliminary hearing that insufficient competent evidence had been adduced to support a finding of probable cause after it had stricken testimony of the defendant’s wife under the husband-wife privilege statute. See section 13-90-107, C.R.S.1973. We do not agree that her testimony should have been stricken, and we therefore reverse.
The defendant was charged with sexually assaulting his wife’s eleven-year-old sister. At the preliminary…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Balltrip v. PeopleSupreme Court of Colorado · 1965
- O'Loughlin v. PeopleSupreme Court of Colorado · 1932
- Jordan v. PeopleSupreme Court of Colorado · 1966
- Dill v. PeopleSupreme Court of Colorado · 1894
- Wilkinson v. PeopleSupreme Court of Colorado · 1929
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3Cited by8 opinions
- People v. LuceroSupreme Court of Colorado · 1987
- State v. R.H.Court of Appeals of Alaska · 1984
- State v. WilletteCourt of Appeals of Minnesota · 1988
- People ex rel. T.S.Colorado Court of Appeals · 1989
- People v. LuceroColorado Court of Appeals · 1985
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