Short v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Olay

Affirming.

Appellant, John Short, seeks the reversal of a judgment convicting Mm of maliciously shooting at another with intent to kill, and fixing his punishment at two years ’ imprisonment.

The record discloses that appellant and Turner Kirk, who was jointly indicted with him, were brothers-in-law of the prosecuting witness, John Brown,, and that for some time there had been bad feeling between them and Brown. According to Brown, he was at his home about midnight of June 14, 1930', when he and his sons, Matthew and Clyde Brown, were awakened- by men talking in…