The People v. Lattimore

The defendant, Susie Lattimore, on her trial in the criminal court of 'Cook county before that court, a jury having been waived, was found guilty of murder. She was sentenced upon such finding to imprisonment for twenty-five years in the Illinois State Reformatory for Women at Dwight. A review of such judgment is here sought by the defendant.

The facts show that the defendant was guilty of an atrocious murder, and that at the time of the commission of the crime, and at her trial, she was between fifteen and sixteen years of age. It was stipulated that the defendant for some misconduct not…