Commonwealth v. Rudert
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 96 — Indictment fob Manslaughter APPEAL FROM GEAYSON CIRCUIT COURT. J. B. Rudert Was Acquitted of the Charge of Voluntary Manslaughter, and the Commonwealth Appeals. Opinion Certified. (No brief in the record.)
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the court by
JUDGE WHITE.
Tbe appellee, Rudert, was indicted in the Grayson Circuit Court, charged with the crime of voluntary manslaughter. Upon trial he was acquitted, and this appeal is prosecuted by the Commonwealth in order to have determined certain rulings .of the court on the trial which are assigned as error.
The facts of the killing, as shown by the evidence certified in the record, are that the accused, Rudert, was on the 9th day of September, 1899, agent of the Illinois Central R. R. at Leitchfield, Ky. On that d'ay he attended a political speaking at the court house at…
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