Delph v. State

On November 22, 1965, while an inmate at the Indiana State Reformatory, the Defendant and one other inmate placed a bet on the Cassius Clay-Floyd Patterson fight with Edward Williams and another inmate. The Defendant having won the bet attempted to collect the wager of several packs of cigarettes; however, the other parties refused to pay the wager to the Defendant and the other inmate.

The following morning, November 23, 1965, in the Thomas White High School, an argument broke out between the Defendant and Edward L. Williams, the victim, as to whether the Defendant was going to be paid.…