Damron v. Commonwealth

MOREMEN, Chief Justice.

Appellant, P. Y. Damron, was convicted of maliciously striking and wounding Eugene Quertermous with a knife, a deadly weapon, with the intent to> kill him, from which act death did not ensue — an offense denounced by subsection (2) of KRS 435.-170. He was sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for three years.

On the night of August 4, 1956, a number of people had assembled at Conyer’s Truck Stop where a dance or musical was in progress. Before the evening was over, incidents occurred which involved members of the Damron and Quertermous families, and others.

The…