Eiffe v. State

Appellant was charged by indictment with murder in the first degree in the Criminal Court of Marion County. To this charge he entered a plea of not guilty, and a special written plea of temporary insanity to which the state replied by general denial.

The cause was tried by jury resulting in a verdict of guilty of murder in the second degree, upon which a judgment and sentence of life imprisonment were rendered.

The assignment of error questions only the overruling of appellant’s motion for new trial.

The motion for new trial contains nine specifications. Nos. 1 and 2, assert error in admitting…