PELFREE v. STATE

No. 29,570.

237 Ind. 302 (1957)

145 N.E.2d 295

PELFREE v. STATE OF INDIANA.

Supreme Court of Indiana.

Filed October 23, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T. Ernest Maholm, of Indianapolis, for appellant.

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


ACHOR, J.

Appellant was charged with rape on a female child under 12 years of age, August 26, 1946. Appellant filed a special plea of insanity and, on December 6, 1946, the court found him insane and sentenced him to the Indiana colony for the criminal insane at Michigan City pursuant to § 9-1706, Burns' 1942 Repl. (Acts 1913, ch. 298, § 6, p. 774), now § 9-1706a, Burns' 1956 Repl. (Acts 1951, ch. 238, § 2, p. 682). On May 10, 1955, after receiving...

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