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• Title: Dustin v. People
• Author : Colorado Supreme Court
• Release Date : January 19, 1947
• Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 48 KB

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[1, 2] No challenge was interposed in the trial court as to venue, and no instruction given or requested thereon except the stock instruction reciting the charge in the information. Nonetheless, the proof of venue was essential and the burden of establishing it was on the prosecution. It is better practice to prove venue by direct evidence, and unfortunate that the time of courts must be taken up with argument and search of evidence on such issues when a single question propounded by the prosecutor at the trial would have avoided the issue. Venue may be proved by evidence of facts and circumstances from which it may be reasonably inferred. This is especially true where, as here, no direct issue as to venue was made at the trial except by plea of not guilty. The proper venue apparently was taken for granted, and there is no evidence to the contrary. In such a case, "It is sufficient if there is evidence from which venue can be reasonably inferred, or if, from the facts and circumstances in evidence, the only rational conclusion which can be drawn is that the crime was committed in the county alleged, or the jury was justified in finding that the crime was perpetrated in the county wherein it is alleged to have been committed." 23 C.J.S., p. 174, § 914.

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