Bruce v. State

This is a criminal appeal from a judgment by the Porter Circuit Court of life imprisonment, which 'followed the verdict that appellant was guilty of the crime of murder in the second degree, as alleged by an indictment in one count returned by the grand jury of Lake county, from which county the venue of this action was changed to Porter county upon motion by the appellant. Appellant’s motion for a new trial was overruled, which action by the trial court is the only error alleged upon appeal. The motion for a new trial was based upon the following causes: (1) That the trial court did not…