Williams v. State

SHEPARD, Chief Justice.

A jury found Mike Williams guilty of attempted murder, a class A felony, and attempted robbery, a class A felony. The court sentenced Williams to concurrent terms of fifty years for each crime and added thirty years to the robbery sentence for an habitual offender finding.

Williams presents four issues in this direct appeal:

I. Whether the evidence is sufficient to support the convictions;

II. Whether the trial court properly instructed the jury on the elements of attempted murder;

III. Whether the trial court erred when it found good cause to excuse the late filing of the…