Skinner v. Commonwealth

Nicholas Lee Skinner, defendant, was found guilty by a jury on indictments charging rape and abduction. His punishment was fixed at life imprisonment on the rape charge and 20 years imprisonment on the abduction charge. The defendant was sentenced in accordance with the jury’s verdicts, and he is here on writs of error to the judgments.

Defendant contends that the trial court erred (1) in excluding as evidence the results of a lie detector test; (2) in allowing evidence of the results of laboratory tests made of hair samples; (3) in admitting evidence illegally seized; (4) in allowing in…