WATKINS v. COMMONWEALTH


378 S.W.2d 614 (1964)

Tollie WATKINS, Appellant, v. COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

April 24, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. M. Shumate, Shumate, Shumate & Flaherty, Irvine, for appellant.

Robert F. Matthews, Atty. Gen., Martin Glazer, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


PALMORE, Judge.

In the course of a fist fight the appellant, Tollie Watkins, drew a pocket knife and inflicted two stab wounds in the chest of his adversary, Harold Bryant. He was indicted for malicious cutting and wounding with intent to kill and found guilty of the lesser offense of cutting in a sudden affray or in sudden "heat and passion," for which the jury fixed his punishment at a fine of $250 and twelve months in jail. KRS 435.170, 180. He appeals on the following...

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