Mitchell v. People

Plaintiff in error, defendant below and hereinafter so designated, was tried for murder. The jury returned a verdict of guilty in the first degree and fixed the penalty at death. Sentence was pronounced accordingly. To review that judgment defendant prosecutes this writ.

Defendant and the .wife of another man went to the place of one Sherie, near Denver. There the three drank and caroused, and defendant and the woman retired together. Later in the night the woman transferred her favors to Sherie. Thereupon defendant left the house, took the woman’s clothes with him and concealed them, secured…