Lewis v. State

This is an appeal by Henry Mack Lewis, defendant-appellant, who had been convicted by a jury in the Vanderburgh Circuit Court of the offense of possession of burglary tools by a convict.

The motion to correct errors was filed, overruled by the court and the defendant-appellant was then sentenced to not less than two years nor more than fourteen years in the Indiana State Prison and disfranchised for a period of two years.

He is now serving his sentence.

Defendant-appellant was charged by affidavit with having Possession of Burglary Tools by a Convict, in Vanderburgh County, Indiana, on the 19th…