Burton v. State

This is an appeal from a judgment on a finding made by the court, without the intervention of a jury, that appellant was guilty of sodomy on his daughter under the first clause of §10-4221, Burns’ 1942 Replacement, and that appellant should be imprisoned in the State Prison for a term of not less than two nor more than fourteen years and be fined in the sum of $100.00.1 The indictment was returned by the grand *249jury of Marion County on April 5, 1950, and charged the offense was committed “on or about the 25th day of March, A. D. 1950.” The error assigned here is that the court erred in…