State v. Kellison

— On the morning of the 2d day of October 1941, the grand jury of Woodbury county returned an indictment against Kenneth 0. Kellison, charging him with the crime of manslaughter alleged to have been committed on the 26th day of September preceding, when the defendant was driving an automobile while intoxicated, by running down and killing one Neis Strom. The defendant was at the time of the proceedings confined in the county jail. At about 12 o’clock noon on October 2d, the defendant was brought into court before the judge, who was at the time engaged in the trial of a civil suit. The county…