71 Ky. 387 | Ky. Ct. App. | 1871
delivered the opinion oe the court.
This appeal is prosecuted by the commonwealth for the reversal of a judgment of the Jefferson Circuit Court dismissing on demurrer an indictment against Matthew Branham, charging him with willfully, maliciously, and feloniously stabbing and cutting Peter Lewis with a chisel, described in the indictment as “ an edged instrument, or deadly weapon.”
The only essential inquiry in the case is, whether the
But, as this court substantially held in the case of Wilson v. The Commonwealth (3 Bush, 105), such a restrictive interpretation of the statute is not authorized either by its “ letter, context, or reason.” On the contrary, we think the enactment was intended to embrace any deadly weapon with which a person may be wounded by cutting or stabbing.
It results that the court erred in sustaining the demurrer to the indictment. Wherefore the judgment is reversed, and the cause remanded for further proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion.