Shook v. Commonwealth

The court below, sitting without a jury, found Lawrence Henry Shook, defendant, guilty of malicious wounding and abduction. He received a sentence of 15 years in the State Penitentiary on the conviction of malicious wounding, and a sentence of 10 years on the conviction of abduction, such sentences to run concurrently. We granted defendant a writ of error.

In this appeal defendant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to convict him on either charge.

Late in the afternoon of September 4, 1969 Lewis Daniel Fowler drove his automobile to the residence of a Mrs. Coates at 513 West Nineteenth…