Ratcliffe v. State

SHEPARD, Chief Justice.

Timothy D. Ratcliffe was tried before a jury and convicted of voluntary manslaughter, a class B felony, Ind.Code § 35-42-1-3 (West 1986). The trial court sentenced him to twenty years imprisonment. Ratcliffe appeals, and we affirm.

The evidence supporting the jury’s verdict demonstrated that four or five days before February 7, 1987, Ratcliffe gave Richard Farris several hundred dollars to use in a drug deal. Time passed, and Rat-cliffe received neither drugs nor money.

Late on the night of February 7, Rat-cliffe and his friend Edward Byrd took a cab to the Exotic She…