Murphy v. State

Defendant (Appellant) was convicted in a trial by jury of robbery while armed 1 and sentenced to im prisonment for a determinate period of thirteen (13) years. His motion to correct errors raised twenty-one issues, four of which have been expressly waived. By grouping of related issues, the remaining seventeen have been reduced to eleven distinct questions, two of which must be resolved in the defendant’s favor and require that a new trial be ordered. One has been rendered moot, and we regard two others as unlikely to resurface upon the re-trial, leaving the following eight issues to be…