Risner v. Commonwealth
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Cast: 91 — INDICTMENT APPEAL FROM MAGOFFIN CIRCUIT COURT. The jury that tried the ease was not selected and impaneled in the manner prescribed by law. As to whether tlie jury was secured in accordance with law, see chapter 210, jiage 948 of Acts 1891-2-8, and especially section 27 of article 4 of that Act.
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE LEWIS
DELIVERED THE OPINION OF THE COURT.
Samuel Risner and Leander Risner were jointly indicted for murder and each convicted jof manslaughter, though the latter only appeals.
The only ground for reversal that we will consider or that, in our opinion, is sufficient to authorize reversal, is failure of the lower court to obtain the jury by whom they were tried in the mode prescribed by “An Act concerning juries,” which was approved May 22, 3893.
The transcript in this case is made out so unskillfully that we have had some difficulty in ascertaining precisely when and in what succession the…
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