Reed v. Commonwealth

STEWART, Justice.

At the 1951 January term of the Laurel Circuit Court two indictments were returned against Prentice Reed, Ernest Reed and Carl Murphy charging that they “did unlawfully, maliciously, and feloniously, with force of arms, strike and wound John Cobb, Sr., (in indictment No. 572) and Nannie Cobb (in indictment No. 573) with a poker, large blocks of coal and other death dealing weapons” with intent to kill, but from which death did not ensue, in violation of KRS 435.170(2).

Upon the trial under indictment No. 572 all three defendants were found guilty of a lesser offense and their…