Case Name: Masuth v. State of Indiana
Court: Supreme Court of Indiana
Jurisdiction: Indiana
Decision Date: 1954-06-16
Citations: 233 Ind. 515
Docket Number: No. 29,081
Parties: Masuth v. State of Indiana.
Judges: 
Reporter: Indiana Reports
Volume: 233
Pages: 515–530

Head Matter:
Masuth v. State of Indiana.
[No. 29,081.
Filed June 16, 1954.
Rehearing denied October 4, 1954.]
Richard W. Mehl, of Mehl & Mehl, of Goshen, for appellant.
Edwin K. Steers, Attorney General, and Frank E. Spencer, Carl M. Franceschini and Richard M. Givan, Deputy Attorneys General, and Charles E. Hughes, Prosecuting Attorney, Elkhart County, for appellee.

Opinion:
Flanagan, C. J.
For the background of this case, see Masuth v. State (1952), 231 Ind. 265, 108 N. E. 2d 313.
Upon retrial, the petition for writ of error coram nobis was denied. The evidence was conflicting. We cannot weigh the evidence. Souerdike v. State (1952), 231 Ind. 204, 108 N. E. 2d 136.
Appellant complains that- she was not permitted to amend her petition to conform to the evidence. We have stated that the evidence is in conflict and that we cannot weigh the evidence. Whether or not appellant was permitted to amend her petition makes no difference. And, of course, it is-fundamental that a petition upon appeal will be considered amended to conform to the evidence.
After denying appellant's motion to amend her petition to conform to the evidence, the court of its own motion set aside the submission and reopened the issues to permit any amendments or new pleadings. No amendments or new pleadings 'were filed. - We are not able to discover whether such action was prejudicial to appellant.
Judgment affirmed.
Bobbitt and Draper, JJ., concur.
Gilkison, J., dissents with opinion in which Emmert, J., concurs.
Note. — Reported in 120 N. E. 2d 272.