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PEOPLE v. VAUGHAN

No. 25279.

514 P.2d 1318 (1973)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. David Patten VAUGHAN, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

October 1, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Duke W. Dunbar, Atty. Gen., John P. Moore, Deputy Atty. Gen., Eugene C. Cavaliere, Jerry W. Raisch, Robert C. Lehnert, Asst. Attys. Gen., Denver, for plaintiff-appellee.

Blewitt, Bisbee & Geil, John H. Bisbee, Boulder, for defendant-appellant.

KELLEY, Justice:

The defendant, David Patten Vaughan, was arrested on a public street in Boulder wearing a pair of blue jeans on the seat of which a portion of the American flag had been sewn. In an information filed by the district attorney, it was charged that the defendant,

"did unlawfully by his acts mutilate, deface and defile a flag of the United States of America with intent to cast contempt thereupon;" contrary...

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