State v. Kohne

Dent, Judge:

Lemuel Kohne, convicted of murder in the first degree by the circuit court of Hardy County and sentenced to life imprisonment, obtained a writ of error to this Court, and assigns five separate grounds for the reversal of the judgment against him.

First, the admission of improper evidence. The evidence objected to is the statements made by the prisoner after the killing in the presence of Muck Strawderman and Camden Strawder-man and in the language of Muck Strawderman was as follows: “He (the prisoner) expected to go to the pen, that he would not have cared to go to the penitentiary…