CATINNA, Commissioner.
James L. Tucker's murder trial in the Daviess Circuit Court resulted in a jury's finding him guilty of voluntary manslaughter and fixing his punishment at twenty-one years in prison. Upon this appeal Tucker seeks reversal on two claimed errors: (1) It was prejudicial error to admit as evidence the results of a lie detector test; and (2) it was prejudicial error to instruct the jury on voluntary manslaughter.
Tucker was charged with the...
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