Lucas v. State

Appellant is here appealing from a judgment of the Hamilton Circuit Court following a trial to the court without the intervention of a jury. The appellant was found guilty and sentenced to a term of imprisonment for life in the Indiana State Prison as punishment for inflicting an injury during the commission of a robbery.

The affidavit on which appellant was tried was filed on January 29, 1965. In pertinent part the affidavit reads as follows, to-wit:

“BE IT REMEMBERED, That, on this day before me, NOBLE R. PEARCY Prosecuting Attorney of the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit, personally came PHILIP…