Parker v. State

Appellant and another were charged by indictment with the crime of murder in an attempt to rob. At that time, appellant had been convicted and sentenced to imprisonment for a long term of years, for a robbery committed in Missouri, and also fori another robbery committed in Indiana, and he admitted on cross-examination that he had participated in a third robbery in Illinois. But he denied that he was present or had any part in the attempt to rob a filling station in Terre Haute at the time the murder was committed for which he was on trial. He was found guilty and was sentenced to death.…