Wheeler v. State

The appellant was indicted in the Allen Circuit Court for the murder of Charles Chandler. The •indictment charges the killing to have been by throwing the deceased upon the ground, and beating and kicking him. Wheeler was tried and convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced to the State’s prison for four years and six months.

Before proceeding to the trial, which occurred at the same term at which the indictment was found, the defendant made an affidavit on which he moved for a continuance of the cause. The affidavit set forth, that-he was a stranger in that county; that, until said charge, he…