Kiefer v. State

239 Ind. 103 (1958)

153 N.E.2d 899

KIEFER

v.

STATE OF INDIANA.

No. 29,580.

Supreme Court of Indiana.

Filed November 18, 1958.

Rehearing denied December 29, 1958.

Barrie C. Tremper and Tremper & Kenny, of Fort Wayne, for appellant.

Edwin K. Steers, Attorney General, and Owen S. Boling, Deputy Attorney General, for appellee.

BOBBITT, C.J.

Appellant was charged by indictment with the murder of his wife, tried by jury, found guilty of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death in the electric chair.

The uncontradicted evidence shows that on the morning of January 15, 1957, while appellant's wife was in…