Sanders v. State

PIVARNIK, Justice.

Defendant-Appellant Kim E. Sanders was convicted by a jury in the Tippecanoe Superior Court of class B felony robbery, Ind.Code § 85-42-5-1 (Burns Supp.1984). The trial court sentenced him to seventeen years imprisonment. He now directly appeals and raises the following four issues:

1. rulings of the trial court regarding Appellant's involuntariness defense;

2. refusal to give Appellant's tendered instruction V;

3. refusal to give Appellant's tendered instruction I; and

4. alleged prosecutorial misconduct during final argument.

At approximately 11:00 p.m. on March 3, 1981, a…