Browder v. Commonwealth
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 6. — PROSECUTION AGAINST RUFUS BROWDER FOR MURDER. — Appeal from Logan Circuit Court. W. P. Sandidge, Circuit Judge. Defendant Convicted and appeals. —
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion op the Court by
Judge Hobson
— Reversing.
Rufus Browder, a negro, shot and killed James Cunningham,, an influential white man, in Logan county on July 13, 1908. At a special term held in August he was indicted for murder. His motion for *47a change of venne was overruled, and the case coming on for trial in February, 1909, he was found guilty as charged, and his punishment fixed at death.
The first question arising on the appeal is as to the propriety of the ruling of the court refusing the defendant a change of venue. By section 1109, Ky. St. 1909 (Russell’s St. sec. 3219), when it appears…
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