Lowe v. People

On a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree plaintiff in error (hereinafter referred to as defendant) was sentenced to life imprisonment. To review that judgment he prosecutes this writ. His application for supersedeas was heretofore denied and he is now in the penitentiary.

On Sunday, July 2, 1922, at some time between 9:30 and 10 o’clock a. m., defendant and his sister-in-law, Edna Fern Skinner, twenty-two years old, were alone in defendant’s residence in Greeley, Colorado. A little before the last mentioned hour he went to a neighbors and reported a fire at his home and requested…