Green v. State

This was a proceeding by affidavit against Newton Green, the appellant, and Howard Phillips charging robbery in Marion County, Indiana. The appellant entered a plea of not guilty to the charge and after trial separately he was found guilty as charged. The overruling of the motion for a new trial is the error relied on in this appeal.

The alleged errors can be placed in four classes. The first refers to the failure of the court to permit experiments in court to test the memory and ability of a witness to pick out the defendant by appearance and by voice; the second involves two instances…