Maggard v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Reversing.

The appellant, Floyd Haggard, was indicted, tried and convicted in the Leslie Circuit Court for the offense of forcibly escaping from tbe custody of an officer while under arrest for shooting at random on the public highway, the offense being one of those denounced by section 1338 of the Kentucky Statutes. His punishment was fixed by the verdict of the jury, upon which judgment was rendered at confinement in the county jail for six months, and his motion for a new trial having been overruled, he prosecutes this appeal.

Several grounds are relied…