Rice v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

Late in the night of March 19, 1940, William True was shot in the restaurant of James Cleri on Wilkerson Street in Frankfort, Kentucky. The wounding bullet cut his spinal cord and paralyzed him from his waist down, which condition has not improved and perhaps never will. The appellant, Virgil Rice, was indicted by the Franklin county grand jury, in which he was accused of the offense denounced by Section 1166 of Baldwin’s 1936 Revision of Carroll’s Kentucky Statutes, and which is the wilful and malicious shooting of another with the intent to kill,…