Parker v. State

The appellant was charged by indictment in four counts with first degree murder. He was tried before a jury, which returned a verdict of murder in the second degree and he was sentenced to serve a life term in the Indiana State Prison. He urges on appeal to this court, among other grounds for reversal, that the evidence was not sufficient to sustain the verdict and that there was error in admitting a written confession which he contends was obtained by physical mistreatment and persistent questioning over a period of several days.

On April 7, 1943, Lillian Johnson disappeared from the home…