Hendersonville, Oct. 14 (AP)—Cross-examination by Robert R. Reynolds of the prosecution this morning failed to break down the testimony of Mrs. C.E. Brooks, wife of the brother of Bonnie L. Brooks, that the defendant on trial for the murder of Sam Y. Bryson, former mayor, had acted strangely while living at her home shortly after the estrangement between him and his wife.
Mrs. Brooks had declared that the defendant would go days without eating more than a poached egg, and could not sleep at night. She stated that for six weeks before the shooting the defendant appeared to her to be insane, and apparently ha no idea of the crime he had committed, until he had been placed in jail.
This testimony appeared to be offered by the defense in substantiation of the theory that the defendant was insane and did not know what he was doing. Mrs. C.E. Brooks also testified that she had never heard the defendant say he was going to kill Bryson. The state attempted to break down her testimony by a strong cross-examination, but she did not vary her statements from that made under direct examination yesterday.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Wednesday, Oct.14, 1925
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