Brown v. State

The appellant was indicted in the Bartholomew Circuit Court upon a charge of murder in the first degree. A trial of the cause, by jury, resulted in a verdict of guilty, fixing the death penalty. Over a motion for a new trial, the court rendered judgment on the verdict and named a day on which the sentence should be executed. From the judgment thus rendered, the appellant prosecutes this appeal and assigns as error:

First. That the circuit court erred in overruling a motion to quash the indictment.

Second. That the court erred in overruling the appellant’s motion for a new trial.

The indictment…