Brown v. State

The appellant (defendant below) is appealing from a judgment of the Wayne Circuit Court, which judgment recited that “The Court finds that said defendant is guilty of the crime charged, namely: First Degree Rape . . . .” The record shows that in the Wayne Circuit Court, at the April Term, 1940, an affidavit was filed against the appellant, charging him in the language of the statute with first degree rape at and in the County of Wayne, in the State of Indiana; that thereafter the prosecuting attorney filed a petition seeking the permission of the court to file an amended affidavit, which,…