State v. Terry

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Price, C. J.:

Defendant appeals from a conviction of murder in the first degree.

Only one contention is made — that the trial court erred in permitting the testimony of two of the state’s witnesses given at the preliminary examinaion to be read to the jury at the trial of the case.

A brief summary of the facts will bring the sole question into clear focus.

On a night in December 1966 one Jerry Peoples, an inmate of the Kansas State Industrial Reformatory, was stabbed to death in his cell. Defendant, Basil Terry, also an inmate of the institution, was…