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JOSEPH, PIERCE v. STATE

No. 29,231.

236 Ind. 529 (1957)

141 N.E.2d 109

JOSEPH, PIERCE v. STATE OF INDIANA.

Supreme Court of Indiana.

Rehearing denied April 30, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Waldo C. Ging, Stephen A. Free, of Greenfield, and William S. Isham (of counsel), of Fowler, for appellants.

Edwin K. Steers, Attorney General, Owen S. Boling, George B. Jeffrey, and Robert S. Baker, Deputy Attorneys General, for appellee.

BOBBITT, J.

Appellants were indicted for murder in the first degree in the year 1935, tried by jury on change of venue to Hancock County in February, 1936, found guilty as charged and sentenced to the Indiana State Prison for life. On June 29, 1953, the Hancock Circuit Court sustained appellants' belated motion for a new trial. Thereafter, in November of 1953, they were retried on the original indictment and the jury failed to agree. In January, 1954, appellants were...

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