Schilling v. State

At the conclusion of a jury trial in Marion .Criminal Court on March 9, 1977, appellant Schilling was convicted of assault and battery with intent to kill and second-degree murder. He was sentenced to imprisonment for two to fourteen years on the assault count and to life imprisonment on the murder count.

The sole question presented for our review is the sufficiency of the evidence to support these convictions. The evidence in this case indicates that on the night of January 12, 1976, one Finley Nelson was stabbed to death in his room in the Home Hotel in downtown Indianapolis. Prior to the…