People v. Lowhone

Plaintiff in error, Frank Lowhone, shot and killed Mack Nottingham April 4, 1919, in the city of Carmi, White county, Illinois. He was indicted for murder, tried, found guilty and sentenced to death. This writ of error is sued out by him to review the judgment.

The killing is admitted. The defense was insanity. The plaintiff in error had lived in Carmi since he was about nine or ten years old. Before he went to Carmi he had lived with his mother on a farm near there. He was a laborer and worked at various kinds of employment and for various persons for a livelihood. In October, 1918, he…