Dunn v. State

—Appellant seeks the reversal of a judgment convicting him of murder in the first degree. This is the second appeal. See Dunn v. State (1904), 162 Ind. 174. The error assigned calls in question the overruling of a motion for a new trial. It was the theory of the State, stated in its boldest outlines, that appellant choked the deceased, a girl of ten, to death, in his barn, as the result of an effort to commit an outrage upon her person, and that he afterwards carried her body to his house, and threw it, through an opening in the kitchen floor, into a cistern. Both as to the corpus delicti…