Case v. State

DeBRULER, Justice.

Defendant-appellant, John R. Case, was charged by information with the murder, Ind.Code § 85-42-1-1 (Burns 1979 Repl.), of his son-in-law. A jury found him guilty as charged, and he was sentenced by the trial judge to a thirty-year term of imprisonment. In this direct appeal, he alleges that the trial judge erred by giving one of the final jury instructions and by refusing two of defendant's tendered instructions. He also claims that the verdict of the jury is not supported by sufficient evidence.

The evidence most favorable to the verdict reveals that in the late afternoon…