Fletcher v. State

The appellant was charged with murder in the second degree by indictment returned in the Vanderburgh Circuit Court to which he entered his plea of not guilty. A trial was had before a jury which resulted in a verdict and judgment convicting appellant of murder in the second degree. From this conviction this appeal is prosecuted. The questions presented arise upon the action of the trial court in overruling the motion for a new trial.

Three specifications are set out in the motion as grounds for a new trial. One of these specifications was that a new trial should have geen granted for the…