Walker v. State

Following the return of a jury’s verdict of guilty, the appellant, John W. Walker, Jr., appeals from a conviction of accessory after the fact of second degree murder and a sentence of life imprisonment rendered by the Marion Criminal Court, Di vision One, on June 20, 1962. The appellant relies upon the overruling of the motion for a new trial as error on appeal. A number of errors are alleged, and we take them up in the order assigned.

It is first argued that the evidence is not sufficient to sustain the verdict. This is a companion case to Callahan v. State (1964), 246 Ind. 65, 201 N. E. 2d…