Masuth v. State

This is an appeal from a judgment rendered in the Elkhart Superior Court against appellant in a coram nobis action.

Her second amended petition alleges that she and one Marjason were indicted in that court on March 5, 1946, for murder in the first degree for the alleged poisoning of her husband, Leo Masuth, that she was arrested on a warrant issued the same date and has been in jail or prison ever since. That on May 16, 1946 she entered a plea of guilty to the charge, and was thereupon sentenced to the Indiana Women’s Prison for life where she has been incarcerated ever since.

That in fact Leo…