JOHNSON v. COMMONWEALTH


229 S.W.2d 445 (1950)

312 Ky. 674

JOHNSON v. COMMONWEALTH.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

April 25, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Ervin Sanders, Pikeville, for appellant.

A. E. Funk, Atty. Gen., Zeb A. Stewart, Ass't Atty. Gen., for appellee.


VAN SANT, Commissioner.

Appellant, Marshall Johnson, has appealed from a judgment sentencing him to confinement for two years in the State Reformatory upon conviction of shooting into the dwelling house of Manuel Burke. He has assigned four grounds for reversal, only one of which it is necessary for us to consider. That is: The Court erred in overruling his motion for a peremptory instruction at the close of the evidence for the Commonwealth. Appellant offered no...

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