Brown v. State

The appellant was charged by information in the Marion circuit court with the crime of murder in the first degree, alleged to have been committed by In Hi ng John E. Stovall, on March 16,1939, by striking him upon the head with a skein from a wagon axle.

This is the second appeal in this case. The-appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree in the first .trial and sentenced .to twenty-one years in.the penitentiary. Upon appeal to this court the case was reversed and remanded for a new trial on account of error committed in the admission of an alleged confession by the appellant,…