Gills v. Commonwealth

Jackson Gills, the accused, was indicted for feloniously and maliciously cutting, stabbing and wounding W. P. Pugh, with intent to maim, disfigure, disable and kill him. The jury convicted him of unlawful cutting with the intent stated and fixed his punishment at twelve months in the penitentiary. This writ of .error *447is to the judgment of the court refusing to set aside the verdict of the jury and grant the accused a new trial.

On December 25, 1923, W. P. Pugh, a deputy sheriff of Campbell county, undertook to arrest the accused for being drunk and disorderly. Gills struck at and brushed…