DAMRON v. COMMONWEALTH


313 S.W.2d 854 (1958)

P. Y. DAMRON, Appellant, v. COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

May 29, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Gordon Lisanby, Princeton, for appellant.

Jo M. Ferguson, Atty. Gen., Wm. F. Simpson, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


MOREMEN, Chief Justice.

Appellant, P. Y. Damron, was convicted of maliciously striking and wounding Eugene Quertermous with a knife, a deadly weapon, with the intent to kill him, from which act death did not ensue — an offense denounced by subsection (2) of KRS 435.170. He was sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for three years.

On the night of August 4, 1956, a number of people had assembled at Conyer's Truck Stop where a dance or musical...

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