Covi v. People
Covi v. People
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the Court.
The plaintiff in error will be referred to as the defendant or by name.
An information was filed in the district court of the City and County of Denver in which the defendant and one Anderson were accused of aggravated robbery and
We can readily understand why the attorney who was appointed to seek review of the judgments in the instant case asked leave to withdraw his appearance. There is not the slightest justification for writ of error in this case. The defendant was positively identified by two eyewitnesses to the robbery. The man whose money was taken, one William B. Huitt, was knocked unconscious and brutally beaten. Both he and his companion, Mr. Quinn, were threatened with “a long-'bladed” knife, which was placed “right up to the pit of my stomach,” just prior to the time the money was produced. There is not the slightest conflict in the evidence. The defendant called no witnesses and offered nothing whatever to disprove the evidence offered by the People. His guilt is established by an abundance of evidence, and we cannot conceive that any jury could possibly have arrived at any different verdicts than those which were returned. There is no merit to the argument that the district atttorney made improper argument to the jury.
The judgment is affirmed.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- Albert L. Covi v. The People of the State of Colorado
- Status
- Published