Brooks v. State

Foster Brooks and his mother Sue Brooks were jointly indicted for the murder of Jack Collins. The defendants severed, and Sue Brooks was convicted of murder as a principal in the second degree, and to the overruling of her motion for a new trial she brings error to this court. There was no controversy at the trial that the deceased came to his death from a blow inflicted by Foster Brooks. There was evidence from which the jury might infer that the homicide occurred under substantially these circumstances : Plaintiff in error, a white woman, lived near the home of John Silvey. On the day of…