The People v. Lewis

The defendants, Merwin Lewis, McKinley Jones and Jesse Jones, were indicted, together with Isaac Jones, in the criminal court of Cook county, for the murder of Booker Martin. Isaac Jones was not tried, but the other three, having waived a jury, were tried before the court and found guilty of manslaughter. They bring the case here on writ of error.

The deceased, Martin, was killed in a free-for-all fight in a gambling house operated by a colored woman in Chicago, and the only question for decision is the sufficiency of the evidence.

The evidence of the witnesses is highly conflicting, and the…