Timm v. State

The Appellant, John Allen Timm, was convicted on December 5,1973, of second degree murder. The Appellant was sentenced by his jury to imprisonment for life. The Appellant’s motion to correct errors was filed on February 15, 1974. It is from the denial of this motion on March 22, 1974, that this appeal is taken.

The evidence at trial revealed that on February 8, 1973, at approximately 1:30 a.m., Donald Leroy Nickles returned from work to his Fish Lake, Indiana, home. He discovered the nude body of his wife, Gayle, lying in a puddle of blood on the living room floor. A total of twenty-two knife…