Maggard v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Fulton

— Affirming.

The appellants, James Maggard, Russell Maggard, Henry Clay Lewis, A. C. Howard, Bentley Fields and Roy Fields, were convicted for the crime of confederating and banding together to intimidate and alarm Pit Nicholson in violation of Section 1241a-l, Kentucky Statutes and bring this appeal, the first ground for reversal urged being that the indictment was insufficient.

In what has many times been referred to by this court as the accusatory part of the indictment the appellants were charged with the crime of “confederating and banding together to…