(DOWNLOAD) "Robert Morgan Grooms and Arthur James" by Supreme Court of Indiana No. 576S154 # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Robert Morgan Grooms and Arthur James
- Author : Supreme Court of Indiana No. 576S154
- Release Date : January 24, 1978
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 66 KB
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Appellants Grooms and McBride were found guilty of first-degree murder at the Conclusion of a jury trial in the Elkhart Superior Court on November 7, 1975. They were sentenced to life imprisonment. The crime in question is the murder of one Katherine Whitman, whose body was found on a county road on the morning of December 1, 1974. Fourteen errors are asserted in this appeal concerning: (1) the denial of appellants' motions for change of venue; (2) an alleged non-compliance with the alibi statute by the state; (3) the admission of Appellant Grooms' custodial statements to police into evidence; (4) the admission of appellant Grooms' statements to a polygraph expert into evidence; (5) the admission of testimony concerning an armed robbery by appellants into evidence; (6) the impeachment of a defense witness by the state; (7) an alleged violation of the trial court's discovery order; (8) the admission of shell casings and test bullets into evidence; (10) the admission of a prison letter of appellant Grooms into evidence; (11) the exclusion from evidence of certain cigarette butts; (12) the denial of a motion for continuance, made in view of the absence of a defense witness; (13) the exclusion from evidence of appellant Grooms' version of his last encounter with the victim, and; (14) the sufficiency of evidence as to appellant McBride's conviction.