The People v. Booker

Plaintiffs in error, Warner Booker and Alvin Jones, upon a trial by a jury in the circuit court of Peoria county, were found guilty of the murder of Doyle Ping. Booker was sentenced to life imprisonment and Jones for a term of thirty years. By this writ of error they seek to reverse that judgment.

Doyle Ping was a truck driver residing in Sperry, Iowa. He was thirty-four years of age at the time of his death. He was about six feet tall and weighed between one hundred eighty and two hundred pounds. On February 16, 1941, Ping, accompanied by Charles Wagner, also of Sperry, drove a truck load of…