Shelby v. State

This is an appeal from a finding and judgment of guilty of second degree murder following a jury trial. The first contention made is that the verdict was not sustained by sufficient evidence. However, a brief review of the evidence, in our opinion, will show that the verdict was fully sustained.

It appears that the appellant lived in a small white house consisting of two bedrooms, a kitchen and a bathroom in Marion, Indiana; that he and Frank Wimsatt, the victim and decedent, occupied this house together, each paying part of the rent. They both seemed to have been rather intimately acquainted…