Cavitt v. Commonwealth

HILL, Judge.

Appellant seeks a reversal of his conviction and sentence for two years under KRS 435.170(1), shooting and wounding with intent to kill, on the grounds that (1) the indictment was defective; (2) the evidence was insufficient to support the verdict; (3) the instructions were defective; and (4) the Commonwealth Attorney was guilty of misconduct in the statement and argument of the case.

On April 11, 1962, Leonard T. Sasseen, the shooting victim, stopped at the Hall Motel in Mayfield, Kentucky, where his estranged wife and their two small girls had been living the four months since…