Hovis v. State

GIVAN, Chief Justice.

Appellant was charged by information with Murder and Felony Murder. He was tried before a jury and found guilty of Murder. He was sentenced to a fifty (50) year term of imprisonment.

The facts are: Thomas Hardy testified that at about 3:00 A.M., on February 2, 1980, he was awakened by sounds of a "commotion" outside his home in Fort Wayne. He saw two men "hunched over" a third man who was on the ground. The man on the ground was eventually identified as the decedent, one John Faurote, a cab driver. A taxi cab with the passenger door open was parked on the street. Hardy ran…