Brooke v. People

Bethel E. Brooke, Jr., was convicted in the Denver district court of murder in the first degree. The jury determined his sentence to be life imprisonment. To this verdict and sentence of the jury on which the court entered final judgment after hearing and denying a motion for new trial, Brooke assigns error.

After writ of error was issued and pending in this court and before the reporter’s transcript and record on error could be filed here, Brooke underwent two polygraph tests, familiarly known as “lie detector” tests. On the basis of the outcome of these tests, he filed in the trial court a…