Coleman v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

At the trial of an indictment returned by the grand jury of Pike County accusing appellant of the offense of maiming (as is denounced by Section 1165 of our present statutes) by biting off a portion of an ear of Prank Kenney, lie was convicted and punished by confinement in the penitentiary for the minimum period of one year. His motion for a new trial was overruled, and from the judgment pronounced on the verdict he prosecutes this appeal, urging through his counsel these grounds as reversible errors: (1) Error in overruling defendant’s demurrer…