Bledsoe v. State

Appellant was one of three defendants held to answer a joint indictment for murder in the Criminal Court of Marion County. While the others were on trial the court on appellant’s motion ordered the venue as to him changed to Boone county, the order directing that a certified copy of the indictment, in lieu of the original, be delivered with the transcript to the clerk of the Boone Circuit Court. After a five-day jury trial with verdict of guilty appellant, for the first time, by motions in arrest of judgment and for a new trial raised the question, now before us, that without delivery of the…