The People v. Brown

Plaintiffs in error, Alcover Brown and Lewis Simpkins, were, with certain other defendants hereinafter referred to, convicted in the criminal court of Cook county, of robbing one Jeanette Cochrane of money and other property. A jury was waived and the trial was by the court. Brown and Simpkins bring the case here for review.

On the trial it was stipulated that if Jeanette Cochrane were to testify, her testimony would be as follows: On March 17, 1937, as she and Beatrice Rayfield were walking on West Seventy-seventh street in the city of Chicago, three men came out of an alley. Defendant Fred…