Witt v. State of Indiana

Appellant was tried and convicted upon an indictment which charged the commission of murder in the first degree “while engaged in an attempt to perpetrate the crime of robbery.” The case was tried in the Boone Circuit Court on a change of venue from Marion County.

The grounds urged for reversal are: (1) that the trial court erred in overruling appellant’s motion for a new trial; and (2) that the trial court erred in assuming jurisdiction over the person of the appellant and over the subject matter of the indictment.

To support the point that the trial court was without jurisdiction of person…