Ball v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Robinson

Affirming.

In May, 1922, during the progress of a trial held in the court house at Pineville, Bell county, a fight arose between spectators attendant thereon. Prank Ball was seriously shot, a nephew of his killed and a naan named John Hurst wounded five times.

With the shooting of the latter we have to deal and for whose wounding this appellant, Floyd Ball, was arrested and indicted, charged with malicious shooting and wounding with intent to kill, and later tried at the May term of said court, 1923.

After hearing numerous witnesses and voluminous evidence,…