Strickland v. State

Earnest Strickland, hereinafter the defendant, was charged, tried and convicted by jury of murder in the first degree of William Logan. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. The defendant filed his motion to correct errors and he appeals raising issues concerning the sufficiency of the evidence, the admission and exclusion of certain evidence, comments of the prosecutor during final argument and an instruction given by the trial court at the state’s request.

Briefly, the relevant facts are as follows. Two days previous to the homicide and the day of the homicide, altercations occurred between…