The PEOPLE v. Adams

Lonnie Adams and his brothers James Adams and Maynard Adams were tried jointly for murder, before a jury in the circuit court of Cook County. The jury failed to reach a decision as to Maynard, but Lonnie and James were found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment. They appeal directly to this court, assigning a number of trial errors, including the admission into evidence of knives alleged to have been obtained by unlawful search of defendant’s home. No claim is made that the evidence is insufficient.

The record shows that about midnight of August 17, 1959, Charles Miller was stabbed to…