Rose v. State

Appellant was prosecuted by a grand jury indictment returned in the Greene Circuit Court charging John M. Rose, appellant herein, with the crime of murder in the second degree.

To this indictment the defendant entered a plea of not guilty. The issues were submitted to a jury for trial and a verdict was returned finding the defendant guilty of manslaughter; that the defendant was seventy-six years of age, and that he be imprisoned in the state prison for a period of not less than two years nor more than twenty-one years.

Appellant filed his motion for a new trial which was overruled and judgment…