Wireman v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Sims, Commissioner

— Reversing.

The appellant, Charlie Wireman, was jointly in-dieted with Bud Wireman and Jim Dunn for the malicious shooting and wounding of Ulysses Reed, a negro. Upon a separate trial he was convicted and his punishment was fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for two years. On this appeal he assigns four errors: 1. Competent evidence was excluded; 2. the verdict is flagrantly against the evidence; 3. the instructions are erroneous; 4. the jury should have been allowed to view the scene of the shooting.

At the time of the difficulty appellant was a…