People v. Clark

This is a direct appeal from the circuit court of Cook County which, after a jury trial, adjudged defendant Charles Clark guilty of the murder of John Collins, a Chicago police officer, and, pursuant to the jury’s recommendation, sentenced him to death.

During the trial, Roger Van Schaik testified on behalf of the prosecution that on December 13, 1967, he was a garage employee of Sears Roebuck at that company’s store at 79th and Kenwood in Chicago. At about 8:00 P.M. on that date, while in the process of assisting a woman in starting her car in the Sears parking lot, he observed a white man…