CARPENTER v. State

This is an appeal from separate convictions of Kidnapping pursuant to Burns’ Indiana Statutes, Anno., (1956 Repl.), § 10-2901. The appellants were tried jointly by the court, without intervention of a jury, and received life sentences.

One of the assigned errors relied upon by the appellants was that the trial court committed reversible error by considering evidence of the appellants’ submission to a lie detector test.

At the conclusion of the evidence on November 13, 1967, the appellants, in the presence of their counsel, agreed to submit to a lie-detector test. The trial judge stated that the…