Taylor v. State

GIVAN, Justice.

A jury trial resulted in the conviction of appellant of Murder for which he received a sentence of sixty (60) years.

The facts are: On October 4, 1987, Mindy Taylor's body was recovered from the driver's side of her Pontiac Fiero which was submerged in a lake in Terre Haute, Indiana. An autopsy revealed that the vie-tim had died of drowning, and that there were no signs of a struggle to escape the car, nor were there any injuries.

Shortly after the victim's death, appellant, her husband, made a statement to the police. In his statement, he indicated that the victim had difficulty…