Toliver v. State

*576*575The State of Indiana has filed a petition to transfer from the Court of Appeals’ opinion reversing the *576trial court’s conviction of the appellant for assault with intent to commit statutory rape. The issue on transfer is whether an adequate instruction on reasonable doubt requires language specifically instructing the jury as to the degree of certainty necessary for conviction. It is appellant’s contention that he has a right to supplement the court’s reasonable doubt instruction with an instruction which focused upon the degree of certainty required to remove reasonable doubt. It is the…