McCormick v. State

This consolidated appeal is from the denial of two (2) Petitions for Post-Conviction Relief and the subsequent overruling of Motions to Correct Errors. Our disposition of the direct appeal of this case, McCormick v. State (1971), 256 Ind. 78, 267 N.E.2d 78, contains a narrative of the events leading to the Appellant’s incarceration. For the purposes of this appeal it is sufficient to relate that at a trial, without the intervention of a jury Appellant was convicted and sentenced as follows: Life in the Indiana State Prison for Rape; an indeterminate period of two (2) — twenty-one (21) years…