State v. Kyles

BLAIR, C.

From sentence of death imposed by the circuit court of Livingston county defendant ap*642peals. John Watts, the deceased, and defendant were and for years had been intimate friends, and that friendship, according to the evidence for both State and defense, had suffered no previous interruption.

Deceased, his wife and one Urton lived in a house on Third street, in Chillicothe, and defendant lived some two or three blocks distant. Deceased was a butcher, conducting no establishment of his own, but accepting employment in killing hogs and cattle for others as opportunity offered. Defendant…