Perry v. State

OPINION

BARNES, Judge.

Case Summary

Rodney Perry appeals his seventy-year sentence on two convictions for Class A felony voluntary manslaughter. We affirm.

Issues

On cross-appeal, which we address first, the State asserts that the trial court erred in granting Perry permission to file a belated appeal. Perry's claim is that his sentence is improper. 1

Facts 2

On January 6, 1997, Perry broke into the house of his estranged wife, Marsheila Perry, after his mother-in-law, Florida Clark, refused to let him in. Marsheila struck Perry with a baseball bat, but Perry then took the bat away. When Clark…