2 Albert G. Hodges, A Digest of the Statute Laws of Kentucky 1301 (1834)

That if any person shall hereafter, in a sudden affray, or in sudden heat and passion, without malice aforethought, shoot at another person with a gun or other instrument loadened with a leaden bullet or other hard substance, and thereby wound any person whatever, without killing, or shall cut or stab any person with a knife, dirk, sword, or other deadly weapon, who dies not thereof, every such person so offending shall be guilty of a high misdemeanor and shall be punished by fine and imprisonment, . . . unless such wounding, cutting, or stabbing shall be done in self defense.