Pueblo v. Trujillo

To the charge that he had violated the ordinance of Pueblo defining vagrancy, Trujillo pled guilty and was fined $50.00. He then employed an attorney who undertook to appeal the judgment and sentence of the Municipal Court of Pueblo to the County Court. His appeal was attacked in the County Court by a motion to dismiss, on the ground that his plea of guilty left nothing to appeal.

The motion to dismiss was denied. Pueblo announced that it would stand on its motion. When it neither put on evidence in support of the charge, nor offered to do so, the County Court entered judgment of dismissal…