Commonwealth v. Hughes

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Settle

Reversing.

At the September term, 1911, of the Bell Circuit Court the appellee, Andy Hughes, was indicted for the 'shooting and killing of Jake Ban Bever; the crime charged being voluntary manslaughter. At the same term of the court appellee executed the required bail bond and entered a plea of not guilty; thereupon the case was continued. At the succeeding term of the court, held in .¡February, 1912, when the case was called for trial, the Commonwealth asked a continuance because of the absence of a single witness, a commercial traveler or drummer, whose…