The People v. Fisher

Plaintiffs in error, Lafon Fisher, Leonard Shadlow and Leon Brown, with one Melvin Jenkins, Herbert Hare and Steve Dixon, were indicted for the murder of Martin French. Dixon was not apprehended, Hare was given a separate trial, and Fisher, Shadlow, Brown and Jenkins were tried at the April, 1929, term of the criminal court of Cook county, were found guilty, and Fisher, Shadlow and Brown were sentenced to death and Jenkins to life imprisonment. The three first named bring the cause here, assigning numerous errors on the record.

On January 18, 1929, five men entered the Franklin Trust and…