State v. Gentry

Citations

• 86 Kan. 534
• 121 P. 352
• 1912 Kan. LEXIS 334

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>1. Criminal Law — Evidence—Stenographer’s Notes — Competent. On a trial for felony, a stenographer who testifies to having correctly made and transcribed shorthand notes of the evidence given at the preliminary examination, in the presence of the defendant, by a witness whose attendance can not be procured, may read such transcript to the jury as a witness for the state, so far as the subject matter is competent.</p> <p>2. - Manslaughter — Unnecessary Proof. In order to justify a conviction under the statute providing that “if any person shall be . . . wounded ... in cases and under circumstances which would constitute . ... manslaughter if death had ensued, the person by whose act . . . such injury . . . shall be occasioned shall ... be punished by confinement and hard labor” (Gen. Stat. 1909, § 2530), the state need not prove that death would have been a natural and probable consequence of the injury inflicted.</p>