State v. Currey

Riley, Judge:

Walter L. Currey prosecutes this writ of error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Taylor County, overruling his motion to set aside a jury verdict finding him guilty of “unlawful shooting and wounding” one Charles R. Weaver, and imposing a sentence of one to five years in the penitentiary.

The indictment, drawn under Code, 61-2-9, charges that defendant on the day of July, 1948, and within one year preceding the finding of said indictment, “did unlawfully, maliciously and feloniously shoot and wound one Charles R. Weaver, and cause him bodily injury, with intent to maim,…