Starke v. Commonwealth

F. W. Starke was indicted in the Circuit Court of Brunswick county upon a charge of maliciously shoot*1040ing with, a pistol one Walter Smith, and upon his trial he was found guilty and sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for one year. To that judgment a writ of error was awarded by this court.

The petition for the writ assigns two errors in the proceedings in the trial court: (1) The ruling of the court refusing to set aside the verdict of the jury for the reason that there was no evidence to support it; and (2) because the verdict found the accused guilty of malicious shooting when there…