Cole v. State

Appellant was charged with murder in the first degree. The jury found him guilty under the fourth count of the indictment, which charged that at Lake county, Indiana, he robbed Erick Johnson of a sum of money and. some checks of a value as stated, belonging to said Johnson, and that in perpetrating the criihe of robbery appellant killed and murdered Johnson by beating and wounding him with a deadly weapon and blunt instrument, the name and character of which was unknown. The verdict fixed his punishment at imprisonment for life. The only error assigned is overruling the motion for a new…