GIBBS v. COMMONWEALTH


293 S.W.2d 714 (1956)

Kelly GIBBS, Appellant, v. COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

September 21, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

O. J. Cockrell, Jackson, for appellant.

Jo M. Ferguson, Atty. Gen., John B. Browning, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


MONTGOMERY, Judge.

Kelly Gibbs was convicted of malicious cutting and wounding. His punishment was fixed at two years' confinement in the state reformatory. His appeal presents the single question of whether the evidence is sufficient to sustain the verdict.

Appellant and his cousin, Amos Graham, had been in Jackson, Kentucky, in the late afternoon or early evening on the day of the August Primary election in 1955. There had been no prior trouble between them...

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