Miller v. State

Appellant Eaymond Miller was indicted for first degree murder by the Marion County Grand Jury on March 7, 1974. He was charged with striking Arie Stanley Byrd with a hatchet on October 2, 1973, inflicting wounds which caused Byrd’s death on December 23, 1973. Appellant *596pled no guilty by reason of temporary insanity. He was found guilty of second degree murder, an included offense, and on September 26, 1974, was sentenced to imprisonment for not less than fifteen and not more than twenty-five years.

Appellant presents three issues in this appeal. First, he claims error in the admission into…