Everett v. State of Indiana

—The appellant was tried and convicted upon an indictment charging him, in a single count, with murder in the first degree. There was a plea of “not guilty” and self-defense. Judgment was rendered upon the verdict that he be imprisoned for life in the state’s prison. His motion for a new trial was overruled and this ruling is assigned as error. It is shown by the evidence that on the evening of June 29, 1931, the appellant was engaged in baiting a trot line in St. Mary’s river on the north side of the town of Pleasant Mills in Adams county; that he was in a boat and carried with him his bait…