Hamilton v. State of Indiana

Appellant was convicted of the offense of burglary in the second degree. The alleged errors relied upon for reversal consist of the court’s action in excluding certain offered testimony of appellant as a witness in his own behalf on direct and redirect examination and in refusing to give appellant’s tendered instruction number 1.

Appellant contends that the offered testimony was a “material and culminating part of the testimony in support of appellant’s theory” that he was forced to be present at the time of the alleged burglary as a part of a general design and scheme of a Mrs. Graves to…