Wallace v. State

PIVARNIK, Justice.

Defendant-appellant Mancil Wallace was convicted of Rape While Armed with a Deadly Weapon, Ind.Code § 85-42-4-1 (Burns Repl.1979) at the conclusion of a jury trial in Elkhart Superior Court on August 12, 1981. Wallace was also found to be a habitual offender. The trial court sentenced the defendant to fifty (50) years for the rape and enhanced the sentence by thirty (80) years for the habitual offender finding. The trial court reduced the enhancement by fifteen (15) years because the last previous conviction was over ten (10) years old. The defendant was given a total…