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- Title: People v. Johnson
- Author : Colorado Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 04, 1972
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 49 KB
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The defendant, James Albert Johnson, seeks to set aside a jury verdict which found him to be sane. He was charged with the crime of aggravated robbery. C.R.S. 1963, 40-5-1. A bifurcated trial was ordered after he entered pleas of not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity at the time of the alleged commission of the offense. He was previously tried and found to be sane and was later convicted of the substantive crime of robbery and sentenced to the penitentiary. We ordered that a new trial be held on the sanity issue alone because of the trial courts failure to properly instruct the jury on the burden of proof. Johnson v. People, 172 Colo. 72, 470 P.2d 37 (1970).