Angel v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Rees

Reversing.

Appellant was indicted for the offense of malicious striking and wounding Jack Faulkner with a deadly weapon with intention to kill him, an offense defined by section 1166 of the Kentucky Statutes. The weapon charged to have been used was a pistol, but it was used not in shooting but in striking Faulkner on the head and inflicting two scalp wounds. Upon his trial appellant was convicted and his punishment fixed at confinement in the state penitentiary for a term of six years. On this appeal the only grounds urged for reversal of the judgment are…