Lawson v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Dietzman

Affirming.

Appellant was found guilty of the offense of malicious cutting and wounding a person with intent to kill him, and sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. On this appeal, his counsel urges three grounds for reversal of .that judgment.

First, he says that the verdict is flagrantly against the evidence. The appellant and the prosecuting witness, Wilkerson, on the Sunday preceding the affair out of which this prosecution arose, had some words at a church meeting over Wilkerson’s claim that appellant had made some slurring remarks concerning a…