Lovelace v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner—

Reversing.

Maynard Lovelace, a deputy sheriff of Lee County, killed Jake Brandenburg while endeavoring to arrest him on November 21, 1936. The next ensuing grand jury declined to return an indictment against Lovelace. A subsequent grand jury indicted him and he was convicted thereunder of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment. We reversed the judgment because there had been no order re-submitting the case to the grand jury. Lovelace v. Commonwealth, 272 Ky. 52, 113 S. W. (2d) 853. Thereafter the circuit judge was of…