The People v. Jordan

Defendant prosecutes a writ of error to the circuit .court of McLean County to review her .conviction of the crime of murder.

About 9:15 p.m. on November 11, 1958, the defendant, accompanied by her husband and Walter Walls, arrived at the entrance to the Royal Palms Niteclub in Bloomington simultaneously with another group in which Queen E. Thornton was a party. Defendant and Queen had known each other for a number of years and, sometime before this meeting, had been involved in a dispute concerning the pregnancy of Queen’s sister, Dorothy. When they met at the entrance to the club they…