Gibbs v. Commonwealth

MONTGOMERY, Judge.

Kelly Gibbs was convicted of malicious cutting and wounding. His punishment was fixed at two years’ confinement in the state reformatory. His appeal presents the single question of whether the evidence is sufficient to sustain the verdict.

Appellant and his cousin, Amos Graham, had been in Jackson, Kentucky, in the late afternoon or early evening on the day of the August Primary election in 19SS. There had been no prior trouble between them. Appellant, admittedly, had been drinking. His statement that Graham also had been drinking is denied by Graham.

Both parties lived some…