State v. Striker

These two cases were briefed, argued and submitted together, and they are so treated in this opinion, with an attempt made to distinguish them.

During the course of the oral hearing one member of this court suggested that evidently we “have a bear by the tail.” The writer of this opinion suggested that it seemed to him that the whole thing was a “comedy of errors.”

As we have sought to disentangle the complications in this record of two bills of exceptions and two transcripts, one of each of which was filed after the hearing, the pleadings, journal entries and interlocking briefs, it has seemed…