sentences:  During his second term as Circuit Judge, he became a national figure in the controversial proceedings against the assassins of Kentucky Governor William Goebel.As the circuit judge in Franklin County, Kentucky, Cantrill swore in William Goebel as Kentucky governor in 1900, a day after Goebel was shot.When Goebel died, Cantrill presided over the trials of the alleged assassins, and backed the Democratic takeover of state government.