Wallace v. Commonwealth

*124Opinion op the Court by

Judge Sampson

Affirming.

The indictment upon which appellant Wallace was convicted accused him of “maliciously shooting at and wounding officer W. M. Ashby, with intention to kill the said Ash'by.” A trial resulted in a conviction, the punishment being fixed at confinement in the state penitentiary for a period of five years, under section 1166, Kentucky Statutes. Wallace prosecutes this appeal.

On the 18th of February, 1924, appellant Wallace and one Stacey came into Louisville in an automobile bearing an Illinois license number for 1923> and drove into a garage on Center…