Selke v. State

— The Ripley Circuit Court overruled appellant’s amended motion asking the court (1) to set aside its ruling denying appellant’s motion for a new trial and (2) to set aside commitment and mittimus issued pursuant to appellant’s conviction for murder. Appellant has undertaken to appeal from the action of that court and contends that the ruling upon the motion for a new trial should be set aside because appellant was not present in court when the ruling was made, and, consequently, that the court’s ruling in his absence was in violation of his constitutional right- “to be heard by himself.”

Appel…