WOODS v. STATE

No. 29,092.

233 Ind. 320 (1954)

119 N.E.2d 558

WOODS v. STATE OF INDIANA.

Supreme Court of Indiana.

Filed May 20, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wilbur F. Dassel, of Evansville, for appellant.

Edwin K. Steers, Attorney General, and Owen S. Boling and Richard M. Givan, Deputy Attorneys General, for appellee.


EMMERT, J.

This is an appeal from a judgment sentencing appellant to the Indiana State Prison for life, after a jury had found him guilty of rape of a female child under the age of twelve years. The error assigned is the overruling of his motion for a new trial.

The court in its preliminary instructions to the jury under Rule 1-7A read the affidavit. Preliminary Instruction No. 1 in part stated:

"To this affidavit, the defendant has been arraigned...

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