People v. Brooks

Mr. JUSTICE THOMAS J. MORAN

delivered the opinion of the court:

A jury’s verdict found the defendants guilty of armed robbery and they were sentenced to serve from 5-15 years in the penitentiary.

On March 13, 1970, at approximately 8:20 A.M., a Mrs. Roth of Free-port, Illinois, looking from her window, observed a brown and black two-door car (Cadillac) drive up and park across the street. She noticed that the motor was kept running and that the car was occupied by two black men. A dirty white two-door sedan (Ford), also containing two black men, pulled up behind the Cadillac and parked with the…