Stice v. State

Appellant was charged by indictment with murder in the second degree, under § 10-3404, Burns’ 1942 Replacement. He was tried by jury, convicted, and sentenced.

The only question presented under the assignment of error is the overruling of appellant’s motion for a ‘new trial.

Appellant first contends that the verdict of the jury is contrary to law ánd is not sustained by sufficient evidence.

The evidence discloses that appellant was a prizefighter, having been known during his career as “One Round Muldoon”; that on the evening of May 8, 1947, appellant, the deceased, and one John Richard Bradley,…