Strickland v. State

The writ of error in this case brings for review judgment of murder in the second degree under an indictment charging the offense of murder in the first ‘degree! ‘

The plaintiff in error brings for our consideration four questions, as follows:

' 1. “In the separate trial of a defendant whose motive for killing the decedent the State purported to prove, is -evidence admissible to show the distinct or separate motive of an accomplice not on trial?

2. “Where on the separate trial of the principal in the first degree no showing is made of any knowledge on the part of one who the State claims was the…