Legal Opinion

Santana v. State

Indiana Court of Appeals

Decided December 9, 1997No. 45A05-9609-CR-353PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

BARTEAU, Judge.

Vincente Santana appeals his conviction, following a jury trial, of murder. He has raised the following issues:

1. Did the trial court commit fundamental error when it failed to provide the jury with a voluntary manslaughter instruction?

2. Did the trial court commit fundamental error when it provided the jury with a voluntary intoxication instruction?

3. Did Santana receive ineffective assistance of counsel?

We affirm.

FACTS

The facts which are most favorable to the verdict indicate that in January of 1991, Vin-cente Santana (‘Vincente”) and Mary Santana (“Mary”), although…

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