Keeling v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Carroll

Affirming.

In May, 1914, the appellant, Keeling, was indicted by "the grand jury of Washington county for the murder of Frank Casteel in April, 1914. After four trials in Washington county, where the offense was committed and the indictment found, each of which resulted in a mistrial, on •account of the failure of the jury to agree, the trial court, •on the motion of the attorney for the Commonwealth, transferred the case to Marion county, and on a trial had in that county, the jury found Keeling, guilty and fixed his punishment at confinement in the…