Krauss v. State

Appellant was charged with murder by a Tipton County grand jury. Venue was changed to Hamilton County where trial resulted in conviction and judgment from which this appeal was taken. Alleged errors relied on consist of permission to the State to amend the indictment and in the giving of two instructions.

It is not necessary to set forth the entire indictment. It is sufficient to say that it was alleged that appellant, on May 20, 1943, in Tipton County, Indiana, unlawfully, feloneously and with premeditated malice killed and murdered one Lora Ida Smith by shooting her, thereby inflicting a…