Castro v. State

Appellant was charged by indictment with the crime of murder in the first degree, and being found guilty was sentenced to die by electrocution. Overruling his motion for a new trial is assigned as error. The undisputed evidence showed that Paul Budich, a detective or “plain clothes” police officer of Indiana Harbor, was wounded while in that city by a bullet fired from appellant’s pistol on April 10, 1924, which passed through his liver and intestines, and died of that wound in a hospital at Gary, Indiana, on April 20; and that appellant was under arrest continuously from the day of the…