Walton v. State

ON DIRECT APPEAL

DeBRULER, Justice.

This is a direct appeal from the sentence given appellant following his conviction upon his plea of guilty but mentally ill to the murder of his parents. Ind. Appellate Rule 4(A)(7). Ind.Code Ann. § 85-42-1-1 (West Supp.1991); Ind.Code Ann. § 85-36-2-5 (West Supp.1991). The trial court imposed an aggregate sentence totalling 120 years. Appellant claims this sentence is manifestly unreasonable. Ind. Appellate Rule 17(B).

Facts 1

Appellant was sixteen years old and an eleventh grader, without a juvenile or criminal record, when he brutally beat and stabbed his…