Nichols v. State

This is an appeal from a conviction of the appellant, Ernest Nichols for the offense of sodomy. The appellant was charged by affidavit in the Bartholomew Circuit Court and entered a plea of not guilty. He was thereafter tried by a jury and found guilty.

The questions presented by the assignment of error as revealed by the motion for new trial are as follows:

1. Error of law occurring at the trial in that the Court erred in overuling the defendant’s motion for a directed verdict at the close of the case of the State of Indiana.

2. Error of law occurring at the trial in that the Court overruled…