The People v. Black

prepared the opinion of the court:

On a trial before a jury in the criminal court of Cook county, the defendant, Corydon A. Black, was found guilty of the murder, by poisoning, of his divorced wife, Cordelia Brosseau. His punishment was fixed at death. He brings the record here for review by writ of error. Supersedeas has been granted.

We shall not recite the evidence in much detail nor discuss the merits of the cause. The deceased died on October 5, 1936. The defendant was arrested in his former wife’s apartment where he had been staying for several weeks prior to her death. He made two…