Puckett v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Chiep Justice Clay

Reversing.

Cecil Puckett was convicted of the offense of malicious shooting and wounding another with intent to-kill.

The only ground urged for reversal is the insufficiency of the.indictment, which reads as follows:

“The Grand Jury of Powell County in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, accuse' Cecil Puckett of the crime of malicious shooting, committed as follows, viz:

“That said Cecil Puckett in the county aforesaid and before the finding of this indictment, did unlawfully, wilfully and feloniously, shoot and wound John Kennon…