Johnson v. State

256 Ind. 579 (1971)

271 N.E.2d 123

JOHNNIE ERNEST JOHNSON

v.

STATE OF INDIANA.

No. 770S172.

Supreme Court of Indiana.

Filed July 8, 1971.

Al S. Woolbert, of Anderson, Frank E. Spencer, of Indianapolis, for appellant.

Theodore L. Sendak, Attorney General, J. Frank Hanley, Deputy Attorney General, for appellee.

HUNTER, J.

Appellant was charged by indictment with the offense of involuntary manslaughter. Upon a plea of not guilty, appellant was tried in the Madison County Circuit Court before a jury and found guilty of simple assault. Pursuant to such verdict appellant was fined two hundred fifty dollars…