Case Name: Hopper v. Commonwealth
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1949-02-04
Citations: 309 Ky. 288
Docket Number: 
Parties: Hopper v. Commonwealth.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kentucky Reports
Volume: 309
Pages: 288–289

Head Matter:
Hopper v. Commonwealth.
February 4, 1949.
Victor A. Jordan and J. J. Tye for appellant.
A. E. Funk, Attorney General, and Zeb A. Stewart, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

Opinion:
Opinion op the Court by
Judge Rees
Dismissing appeal.
Appellant was tried under an indictment charging him with wilfully and maliciously shooting at another without wounding, a crime defined by KRS 435.170. He was convicted under an instruction which submitted the qusetion of his guilt of the offense defined by KRS 435.180, a degree of the crime for which he was indicted and a misdeameanor. His punishment was fixed at a fine of $500 and confinement in the county jail for one year. He is prosecuting an appeal purportedly granted by the circuit court without complying with the procedure outlined in section 348 of the Criminal Code' of Practice.
This court is without jurisdiction, and on the authority of Pickett v. Commonwealth, 293 Ky. 842, 849, 170 S.W.2d 876, Wells vs. Commonwealth, 288 Ky. 429, 156 S.W.2d 497, Adams v. Commonwealth, 285 Ky. 803, 149 S.W.2d 727, and cases therein cited, the appeal is dismissed.