Legal Opinion
Layton v. State
Indiana Supreme Court
Decided September 27, 1968No. 268S33PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtArterburn, J.
This is the second appeal for the appellant, Michael Walton Layton. (See Layton v. State (1966), 248 Ind. 52, 221 N. E. 2d 881.) He was originally charged in Count One with first degree (premeditated) murder and in Count Two with murder while engaged in the perpetration of a robbery occurring on September 22, 1960. At the conclusion of the first trial in 1961, the jury returned a verdict of guilty on both counts, and fixed the punishment on both counts as imprisonment in the State Prison during life.
The appellant thereafter asked for a new trial which was overruled by the trial court and from…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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- Griffin v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1956
- Green v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1957
- McKane v. DurstonSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
- Cichos v. IndianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
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