Supreme Court of Colorado March 22, 1993, 92SA363 (People v. Smith)

Justice YOLLACK

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

Donald Eugene Smith (Smith) appeals the decision of the district court in

People v. Smith,

No. 89CR72 (June 28, 1990), wherein the jury found Smith guilty of first degree murder and the district court sentenced Smith to the mandatory minimum sentence of life imprisonment with no possibility of parole for forty years. § 18-l-105(l)(a)(IV), 8B C.R.