Lewis v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Nunn

Affirming.

Appellant was indicted and convicted for willfully and maliciously cutting one John Burris with a knife, a deadly weapon, with intention to kill Burris, but from which he did not die. The proof showed that appellant did the cutting, and that he was guilty as charged unless the act was done in self-defense, and that was his defense upon the trial. The indictment was based upon section 1166, of the Kentucky Statutes, which denounces as a felony a malicious wounding of another with intent to kill: by either shooting, cutting, striking, or stabbing. The…