Burford v. Commonwealth

This is a writ of error to a judgment entered on the verdict of a jury convicting George W. Burford of a felony in unlawfully wounding with intent to maim, disfigure, disable and kill Theron W. Thompson. The petition filed in this court assigned ten errors alleged to have been committed by the lower court in the trial.

The concession made by counsel for the accused in the oral argument, to the effect that the evidence for the Commonwealth was sufficient to sustain the verdict, reheves this court of the necessity of discussing the assignments of error numbered one and two.

The third assignment…