Harris v. State

This is an appeal from a conviction in a criminal action brought by the State of Indiana against the appellant charging him with the offense of murder in the first degree. The appellant was charged in an indictment filed in the Floyd Circuit Court which indictment reads as follows:

“The Grand Jurors of the County of Floyd, in the State of Indiana, upon their oaths do present that at said County and State on or about the 2nd day of June, 1964, Robert D. Harris unlawfully, feloniously and purposely, and with premeditated malice, did kill and murder one Robert L. Townsend, also known as Joe…