People v. Brooks

A jury convicted Freeman Brooks of the murder of Castoria Jones, Jr., and fixed his punishment at 14 years in the penitentiary. A writ of error issued by the Supreme Court to review his conviction was transferred to this court.

The defendant, Freeman Brooks, 66 years of age, was a widower who lived alone in a third floor apartment at 4725 Indiana Avenue, Chicago. Lucille Chapman, her eight-year-old daughter, and the man Mrs. Chapman was living with, Castoria Jones, Jr., 29 years of age, occupied an adjacent apartment. Another apartment on the third floor was occupied by Mercedes Lee, a friend…