HATFIELD v. STATE

No. 29,982.

243 Ind. 279 (1962)

183 N.E.2d 198

HATFIELD v. STATE OF INDIANA.

Supreme Court of Indiana.

Rehearing denied September 25, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles E. Hughes, of Elkhart, for appellant.

Edwin K. Steers, Attorney General, and Richard C. Johnson, Deputy Attorney General, for appellee.


LANDIS, J.

Appellant was indicted for the first degree murder of his wife, and after a trial by jury was convicted as charged, and sentenced to death. He appeals from the judgment and has assigned as error the overruling of his motion for new trial.

Appellant's first contention is that one of the jurors, one Glenn Monk, was guilty of misconduct in that each day of the trial he had been taking on an average five pills or capsules of certain tranquilizing drugs...

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