Lovvorn v. State

The defendant Howard Lovvorn was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and his punishment fixed at a sentence of not more than ten years in prison. The killing took place in Murfreesboro, about 1:30 p. m. on Sunday, at the home of the defendant. The principal witness for the state, O. D. Vance, captain of the Mur-freesboro police department, received a call that Bill Loughery had been killed at the defendant’s home. He and General Hoyte Stewart, District Attorney General, and other'police officers went to the home of the defendant. The deceased was lying inside of the front room of the home,…