Easterday v. State

Appellant was charged by affidavit in the Wabash Circuit Court on two counts of the offense of sodomy. Upon a plea of not guilty, trial was had by jury and a verdict of guilty was returned. Appellant was sentenced to the Indiana Reformatory for a term of not less than two (2) nor more than fourteen (14) years.

On this appeal, the sole assignment of error is that the trial court erroneously overruled appellant’s motion for new trial. Because of the result reached by this court, it will be necessary to discuss only two issues raised by that motion, namely whether the trial court erred in…