Bottom v. State

The grand jury of White County returned an indictment against appellant on July 17, 1922, charging him with the crime of murder in the first degree, alleged to have been committed in that county by killing one Harry Benning by shooting him with a pistol, and on the trial of the case he was convicted by the jury and his punishment was fixed at life imprisonment. An appeal has been prosecuted to this court, and the only assignment of error urged here is that the court erred in overruling the motion to quash the indictment. .

The motion which appellant filed before the commencement of the trial…