State v. Start

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Doster, C. J.:

This is an appeal from a judgment of the district court of Hodgeman county sentencing the appellant for the crime of manslaughter in the fourth degree. The homicide occurred in Rush county. A trial was had in that county at the October term for 1898, which resulted in a conviction. From the judgment then pronounced an appeal was taken to this court, and it was reversed and a new trial ordered. (The State v. Start, 60 Kan. 256, 56 Pac. 15.) A trial was again had in Rush county at the October term, 1899, but the jury failed to agree. The…