Choate v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge-Carroll

Affirming.

The grand jury of Graves county returned an indictment under section 1165 of the Kentucky Statutes, against the appellant, B. E. Choate, charging that he, “before the finding of this indictment, did unlawfully, willfully, feloniously, maliciously and with force and arms, and by placing Henry Campbell in fear, and with a sharp-edged instrument, cut and slit off a member of the person of Henry Campbell, to-wit, a part of the privates of Henry Campbell.” Under this indictment Choate was put upon his trial, and the jury, after finding him guilty,…