Legal Opinion
Bustamante v. People
Supreme Court of Colorado
Decided November 4, 1957No. 18151PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sutton
Plaintiff in error, County Clerk of Las Animas County, Colorado, to whom we shall refer herein as defendant, was convicted, as County Clerk, of having embezzled on or about January 2, 1954, funds of said county in the amount of $888.40. Defendant, as County Clerk of Las Animas County, had previously been convicted by a jury of embezzling $1689.00 of said county’s funds between May 24, 1953, and October 19, 1954. This latter conviction was reversed on May 21, 1956, by this court in Case No. 17,802, due to errors of law and remanded for a new trial. Bustamante v. People, 133 Colo. 497, 297 P.…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Brown v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1913
- Young v. PeopleSupreme Court of Colorado · 1913
- Dill v. PeopleSupreme Court of Colorado · 1894
- Stein v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1953
- St. Louis v. PeopleSupreme Court of Colorado · 1949
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3Cited by29 opinions
- People v. WilliamsSupreme Court of Colorado · 1999
- Cervantes v. PeopleSupreme Court of Colorado · 1986
- Gill v. PeopleSupreme Court of Colorado · 1959
- Bustamante v. District Court of Third Judicial Dist.Supreme Court of Colorado · 1958
- People v. GarnerSupreme Court of Colorado · 1975
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