Lee v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Lassing

Affirming.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Clinton Circuit Court, sentencing John Allen Lee to confinement in the State penitentiary for three years for wilfully and maliciously shooting and wounding one James Means. The evidence shows that appellant and his family lived in Tennessee near the State line. James Means likewise lived in Tennessee, a near neighbor to appellant. On the evening of the day before the difficulty occurred in which appellant is charged with having shot James Means, his son Tom and Means had some trouble which resulted in…