Hogan v. State

SMITH, Presiding Justice,

for the Court:

Eugene Hogan was tried in the Circuit Court of Warren County upon an indictment charging him with the murder of Mildred Washington, a woman with whom he had lived for some twelve years, although they had never married, and by whom he had four children. He was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.

The defense was the alleged insanity of Hogan at the time of the homicide.

It appears from the evidence that at some time prior to the date on which he killed Mildred Washington, she had left Hogan and their children and had moved in with another man,…