Madison v. State

This is an appeal from a judgment sentencing appellant to imprisonment for life, entered on a verdict finding him guilty of murder in the second degree under an indictment charging murder in the first degree. The assignment of errors charges the trial court erred (1) in overruling appellant’s motion to quash the indictment, and (2) in overruling appellant’s motion for a new trial. The motion for a new trial, among other things, alleged the verdict was not sustained by sufficient evidence, and was contrary to law.

The indictment was returned by the Grand Jury of Vanderburgh County on October 2,…