Blanton v. State

233 Ind. 51 (1953)

115 N.E.2d 122

BLANTON

v.

STATE OF INDIANA.

No. 29,069.

Supreme Court of Indiana.

Filed October 27, 1953.

Rehearing denied January 19, 1954.

Edward C. Brennan and Obed T. Kilgore, of Indianapolis, for appellant.

Edwin K. Steers, Attorney General, and Owen S. Boling, Deputy Attorney General, for appellee.

DRAPER, J.

Appellant was tried by jury and found guilty of the crime of robbery while armed. He was sentenced to a term of twenty years in the Indiana State Prison. He appeals, assigning as error the overruling of his motion for new trial.

On April 21, 1952, an affidavit in one count…