Clark v. State

— Appellant Clark was convicted in 1974 of having inflicted an injury upon a cab driver, one Tornatta, while engaged in robbing him; he was sentenced to life imprisonment. The conviction was affirmed. Clark v. State, (1976) 264 Ind. 524, 348 N.E.2d 27. In the court below appellant then challenged his conviction by post-conviction petition pursuant to Ind. R.P.C. 1, raising three grounds: (1) one Copeland who had been charged in the same affidavit as appellant was acquitted at a separate trial conducted seven months after appellant’s trial; (2) appellant since his trial and conviction acquired…