A. Irving Lowman and Floyd Braswell

WHITFIELD, J. -- Upon an indictment charging murder in the first degree in Hernando County, Florida, by fatally shooting Ben. T. Harrell, ""unlawfully and from a premeditated design to effect the death of the said Ben T. Harrell,"" the plaintiffs in error were convicted of murder in the first degree with a recommendation to mercy, and took writ of error to a judgment imposing a life sentence.