Love v. State

This is the fourth opinion to be handed down in two appeals from a judgment denying petitioner-appellant Love’s petition for post conviction relief from a determinate sentence of ten years for robbery.

The first appeal was to the Supreme Court of Indiana. At that time it was the only appellate court in the State with jurisdiction of appeals in criminal cases and in post conviction relief proceedings. That appeal was premised on the overruling of a motion to correct errors which contended (as the sole error) that the trial court had erred in making no finding on the issue raised by the…