Steele & Woods v. State

This is an appeal by Donald Eugene Steele and Damon Ray Woods from the verdict and the judgment of the Criminal Court of Marion County, Division Number One, by which each of the appellants was convicted of the crime of manslaughter. The indictment which charged the appellants with the offense of first degree murder, pursuant to Burns’ Ind. Stat. Anno., § 10-3401, (1956 Repl.), reads as follows, omitting the formal parts:

“The Grand Jury for the County of Marion in the State of Indiana, upon their oath do present that DONALD *83EUGENE STEELE and DAMON RAY WOODS on or about the 31st day of…