Byrd v. Commonwealth

Preston Byrd has been convicted of malicious shooting and sentenced to two years and six months confinement in the penitentiary. The evidence establishes, or tends stron gly to establish, the following facts—certainly it is sufficient to sustain a verdict which depends upon them for support:

Byrd, a married man with a wife and three children, is a citizen of Accomack county and lives in the village of Makemie Park. On an unnamed Sunday morning in January, 1931, he drove from his home into the county and did not return until after supper, or about six-thirty in the evening. In the afternoon…