Bush v. Commonwealth

Opinion op

Chiep Justice Thomas

Affirming.

The appellant, Sterling Bush, was indicted by the grand jury of Wolfe County in which he was charged with maliciously shooting and wounding Kenneth Booth, an infant child of Orval Booth, but from which wounding the infant did not die, an offense created, and punished by section 1166 of our present Statutes. At his trial, under his plea of not guilty, he was convicted and punished by confinement in the penitentiary for one year. His motion for a new trial was overruled, and from that order and the judgment pronounced on the verdict he prosecutes this…