Stubbs 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 enhanced by an additional thirty (80) years for being a habitual offender.

The facts are: On the afternoon of July 25, 1987, a car pulled up and honked its horn in front of the home of the victim, Dorothy Reed, located on North Alabama Street in Indianapolis. The driver instruct ed Reed's nine-year-old son to go in the house and tell Reed he wanted to see her. The child complied, and when he told his mother, she looked out the window and said, "'That ain't nobody…