Walker v. Burgevin, Judge

Opinion op the 'Court by

Judge MoCandless—

Denying writ of prohibition.

On this petition for a writ of prohibition the petitioner, an expert stenographer, states that, upon the trial ■of James Howard on the charge of murder in the Jefferson circuit court, criminal division, the official stenographer of that court, John P. Cassilly, was ill, and that,. by consent of the commonwealth, the defendant, and the court, the petitioner took the evidence heard in the case in shorthand; but he was not appointed as official stenographer, did not take any oath of office, nor was any order of court entered in…