Hale v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Cammack

Affirming.

Millard Hale and his son, Turner, were convicted in March, 1940, of the crime of maliciously cutting and wounding Simpson Pike. The penalty of each was fixed at three years in the State Beformatory. They are appealing.

The affray in which Fike was wounded took place early in the evening of October 9, 1939. There seems to have been a previous difficulty between Fike and the elder Hale, which grew out of Pike’s giving whiskey to Turner. Fike went to church around seven o’clock. The Hales went to the church shortly thereafter, and at least Millard…