WHITE, JR. v. STATE

No. 29,179.

234 Ind. 209 (1955)

125 N.E.2d 705

WHITE, JR. v. STATE OF INDIANA.

Supreme Court of Indiana.

Filed April 6, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hunter J. von Leer, of Terre Haute, and J.L. Sullivan, of Paris, Illinois, for appellant.

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


ACHOR, J.

This is a prosecution for rape. Trial was by jury which returned a verdict of guilty.

The record in this case is replete with irregularities on the part of the prosecution. Some of these pertained to the admission of evidence regarding crimes currently having been committed in the neighborhood of the offense charged, but which were not involved in this action. There was a statement of dubious propriety in the State's opening statement relating to...

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