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WALLACE v. STATE

No. 29,002.

232 Ind. 700 (1953)

116 N.E.2d 100

WALLACE v. STATE OF INDIANA.

Supreme Court of Indiana.

Filed December 17, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lockyear & Armstrong, of Evansville, for appellant.

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

FLANAGAN, J.

One question is presented. Appellant says the trial court erred in refusing to give the following instruction:

"There is no statute in the State of Indiana defining an attempt to commit suicide as a criminal offense. You are therefore instructed that an attempt to commit suicide is not an unlawful act in the State of Indiana."

By this instruction, appellant demanded that the court tell the jury that "unlawful" and "criminal" are legally...

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