Dowell v. State

Following a jury trial, Regunal R. Do-well was convicted of three counts of rape as a class B felony, one count of criminal deviate conduct as a class B felony, and one count of criminal confinement as a class D felony, 1 and was sentenced to an aggregate executed term of 43 years. The Court of Appeals affirmed the convictions and sentence in Dowell v. State, 865 N.E.2d 1059 (Ind.Ct.App.2007), and Dowell petitioned to transfer jurisdiction to this Court. We grant transfer to address the Court of Appeals’ resolution of a conflict between the trial court’s oral pronouncement of sentence and the…