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- Title: Culp v. State Indiana.
- Author : Supreme Court Of Indiana
- Release Date : January 19, 1944
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 53 KB
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RICHMAN, J. Appellant was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and assigns error in the overruling of his motion for new trial. After some name calling in a tavern in Plymouth, Indiana, decedent followed appellant to an adjoining area, paved with concrete, where a physical encounter ensued. In a few minutes the proprietor of the tavern went to the scene of the encounter and found decedent lying on the pavement and appellant standing near. Appellant said, "I hit him but I guess I hit him a little too hard." A passerby testified that appellant also said, "He needed hitting and, by God, I hit him." Appellant re-entered the tavern and told a waiter, "There has been an accident out there, somebody has been hurt or maybe I killed somebody." Later in the day appellant made a similar statement to another witness at a different tavern. A surgeon testified that the decedent had a fractured skull from which he died three days later. Appellant was the only witness who described the encounter. He testified that both he and decedent took off their coats,