Christian County KyArchives News.....TWO COURTS AT ONCE - CIRCUIT COURT IN A DOUBLE HEADER WAS BUSY March 28, 1916
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HOPKINSVILLE KENTUCKIAN March 28, 1916
Circuit court was busy yesterday with two courts going on at once.  In the 
absence of Judge Hanberry there were three special judges on duty the latter 
part of the week, hearing such cases as they were not interested in as 
attorneys.  They were Judges C. H. Bush, T. P. Cook and John Feland.  Judge W. 
M. Reed of Paducah, a regular judge detailed to special duty arrived yesterday 
and resumed the commonwealth's cases in the circuit court room.  Other cases 
tried since last report were Jack West, muder, given life sentence.



Additional Comments:
This information is from the Commonweath of Kentucky Department of Corrections 
Offender Information Services Branch, dated October 29, 2003.

Jack West, DOB 1878, Inmate #2386 was committed to the Kentucky prison system 
on April 1, 1916.  He received a life sentence from the Christian Circuit Court 
on the charge of Willful Murder.  He was released by parole on July 12, 1924 
and returned to prison as a parole violator on February 12, 1925.  On November 
26, 1925 he was transferred to the Western State Hospital and apparently never 
returned to the prison system.

Jack West's death certificate File#116 shows that he died on September 6, 1963, 
after 37 years, 9 months and 10 days in the Western State Hospital.  He was 
buried In West Union Cemetery in Christian County. 



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