Bentley v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Rees

Reversing.

The appellant, Milhnrn Bentley, was convicted in the .Letcher circuit court for malicious shooting and wounding another with intent to kill and his punishment fixed at .confinement in' the penitentiary for one year and ■a day.

At the time the shooting occurred appellant was marshal of the town of Neon. According to his testimony he received information that one Monroe German was drunk and disorderly at a certain point in the town and appellant proceeded to the point designated and found German on the sidewalk in front of a restaurant talking to George…