KENTUCKY v. POWERS

No. 393, Submitted; No. 15, Original.

201 U.S. 1 (1906)

KENTUCKY v. POWERS. Ex parte COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY, PETITIONER.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 12, 1906.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Napoleon B. Hays, Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and Mr. Lawrence Maxwell, Jr., with whom Mr. Robert B. Franklin and Mr. C.J. Bronston were on the brief, for petitioner in No. 15, original, and for appellant in No. 393.

Mr. Frank S. Black and Mr. E.L. Worthington, with whom Mr. Richard Yates, Mr. H. Clay Howard, Mr. James C. Sims and Mr. R.C. Kinkead were on the brief, for defendant in No. 15 and for appellee in No. 393.


MR. JUSTICE HARLAN, delivered the opinion of the court.

Powers, the accused, was indicted in the Circuit Court of Franklin County, Kentucky, for the crime of having been an accessory before the fact to the murder of William Goebel, who was assassinated in that county on the thirtieth day of January, 1900. The prosecution was removed by change of venue to the Circuit Court of Scott County. In the latter court the accused was...

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