Bell County KyArchives News.....MIRACLE MUST DIE May 17, 1912
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The Peoples News May 17, 1912
The Peoples News. A Democratic Newspaper. Published weekly by the Peoples
News Inc. Charles Davis Editor

MIRACLE MUST DIE
The Court Of Appeals Friday affirmed the Bell Circuit court in the case of
Cal Miracle against the Commonwealth, in which the death penalty by
electrocution was imposed.
Judge Miller delivered the opinion of the court.
Miracle was convicted of the murder of Dulcie Partin, a woman. The crime
was committed on Sunday August 27 1911 on a public road on Straight Creek,
Bell County.
Following the murder Miracle fled the state. He was caught at Birmingham
Alabama. It subsequently developed that thirty minutes before Miracle
killed the woman he shot and killed Matthew Jones, at his residence farther
down the road.
A Point relied on for reversal of the judgement was that one of the Jurors
was related to the murdered woman. The court holds that where a juror does
not know of the kinship to the deceased, he stands in the same relation to
the accused as a stranger, in so far as the affinity of blood might affect
his verdict. 

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