Todd v. State

Appellant was prosecuted by affidavit charging automobile banditry under the Acts of 1929, ch. 54, §3, being §10-4710, Burns’ Revised Statutes, 1942 Replacement. To this affidavit appellant entered a plea of not guilty. He was tried before a jury which rendered a verdict of guilty and that he be imprisoned in the state prison for a period of ten years. The court found that his true age was thirty-eight years, and sentenced him to serve a determinate period of ten years in the Indiana State Prison. From such judgment this appeal is taken.

Seven separate grounds are advanced by appellant in his…