Helms v. State

This is an appeal by Anthony Kent Helms, appellant, from a conviction of murder in the second degree after trial by jury in the Warrick Circuit Court.

The indictment returned and filed by the grand jury, charging the defendant with murder in the first degree, omitting the caption, reads as follows:

“The Grand Jurors of Warrick County, in the State of Indiana, good and lawful men, duly and legally impaneled, charged and sworn to inquire into felonies and certain misdemeanors in and for the body of said County of Warrick in the name and by the authority of the State of Indiana, on their oath…