Pike v. State

Plaintiff in Error was indicted and convicted of the murder of Levi Nathan Allen and seeks to reverse this judgment on writ of error. The verdict was for murder in the first degree with recommendation to mercy.

There are twelve assignments of error. They attack ' the refusal of the trial court to permit an experiment with a lamp found in the house of Allen on the morning after the homicide, the refusal of the court to sustain objections to questions propounded to the defendant, Pike, and to the witness, Rhodes, the refusal to admit proferred testimony by the defendant as to the condition of an…