Slusher v. Commonwealth

This case is before us on a writ of error to a judgment entered upon the verdict of a jury convicting E. E. Slusher, sometimes hereinafter referred to as the defendant, upon an indictment which charged that he “did attempt to maliciously, unlawfully and feloniously assault, cut and wound one Thomas O. Alexander with a knife, with the intent to maim, disfigure, disable and kill” him. In accordance with the jury’s verdict the defendant was sentenced to confinement in the state penitentiary for the period of one year.

The main assignment of error challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to…