Tokacs v. State

On change of venue from the criminal court of Lake County, appellant, in the Porter Circuit Court, was tried and convicted of murder in the second degree. Judgment and sentence for life followed his conviction. In this court, he assigns as errors the overruling of his motion in arrest of judgment, his motion for a new trial, and that the court erred in assuming jurisdiction over the subject-matter and of the person of appellant.

We will first notice the jurisdictional question. This question is sought to be presented not only by an independent assignment of error, but by his motion in arrest…