State v. Reitze

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Guatmerb, Chief Justice.

The writ of error in this case brings np the conviction of the defendant upon an indictment charging him with the crime of manslaughter, the person for whose death he was alleged to have been criminally responsible being one Thomas Welsh.

The material facts proved in the case were as follows:

Welsh and a friend named MeCatharn, called at the inn of Reitze, in the village of Whitehouse, about nine o’clock in the morning of the 7th of February, 1913, went into the barroom, and remained there until half-past twelve, during which *408time…