Powell v. Commonwealth

Judge Knight

Affirming.

Appellant was convicted by a jury under an indictment charging him with feloniously shooting and wounding another with intent to kill and his punishment fixed by the jury at 2 years in the penitentiary. He prosecutes this appeal from a judgment based on that verdict.

The testimony of the Commonwealth on which conviction was based was in substance as follows: Appellant and his companion Percy Lashley were observed driving recklessly on the streets of Leitchfield about 6 o’clock p. m. on July 11, 1949, by E. M. Parrigan, night marshal of that town. As they turned a corner…