Cravens v. Commonwealth

COMBS, Judge.

Everett Cravens has appealed from a sentence of seven years’ confinement in the penitentiary for maliciously shooting and wounding Jesse Clark. KRS 435.170. Seven grounds are assigned for reversal, but we will refer in this opinion only to those grounds which we think have sufficient merit to justify discussion.

The shooting occurred in “Tommy and Emma’s Place” in the “Craw” section of Frankfort. Cravens, who lives in Henry County, had come to Frankfort with four male companions in search of amusement. They went first to the “Club Rendezvous” and later to “Tommy and Emma’s Place”,…