Cooper v. State

PIVARNIK, Justice.

Defendant-Appellant James Cooper, also known as Robert Merriwhether, was convicted by a jury in the Lake Superior Court of class B felony burglary. The trial court subsequently sentenced him to seventeen years imprisonment. Appellant now directly appeals and raises the following three issues:

1. sufficiency of the evidence;

2. whether the trial court erred by permitting testimony about a subsequent conversation between Appellant and the victim; and

3. whether Appellant’s sentence was unconstitutional.

The facts adduced at trial show that Rena Oliver observed two men moving…