Walker v. State

Prank Walker was indicted for the murder in the second degree of Clyde Wilkerson and convicted of manslaughter. He seeks a reversal of the judgment on writ of error.

The first assignment of error rests upon an order of the Court striking a plea in abatement upon motion of the State. The grounds were that the pleas did not “meet the requirements of the rules governing the filing” of such pleas; that they were not sufficiently certain; that they were “not so drawn as to obviate the possibility of special answers” and that they state or attempt to state mere conclusions of law.

The record shows…