Sikes v. State

The State offered no eye-witness of the alleged homicide of Kennedy by Sikes, but proved statements made to the arresting officer in the presence of the accused by eye-witnesses, and claimed that his silence and acquiescence amounted to an admission of the truth of what was said. In addition to the defend*495ant’s contention that he repudiated this statement, he claimed that the course of the bullet from the mouth through the top of the head, its lodgment in the ceiling immediately over where he was standing, the length of the gun, the position in which it was alleged to have been held, and all…