State v. Budge

The respondent was indicted for manslaughter at the May term, 1925, in the Superior Court for the county of Penobscot and tried at that term, and a verdict of guilty rendered which was set aside. Upon a second trial, the state introduced under Sec. 171, Chap. 87 R. S., a duly certified copy of the stenographic notes of the official reporter of the trial court taken at the former trial of the testimony given by a witness, the state having first presented evidence upon which the trial judge found that since the former trial the witness had left the state and was then beyond the jurisdiction of…