Drake v. State

PIVARNIK, Justice.

Defendant-Appellant Ernest Drake was convicted of Child Molesting, a Class A felony, and Criminal Confinement, a Class B felony. Drake was given an enhanced sentence of fifty (50) years on the child molesting conviction and a presumptive twenty (20) year sentence on the criminal confinement conviction, said sentences to run concurrently for a total of fifty (50) years. He appeals directly to this Court and raises the following six issues:

1. whether the trial court erred in failing to immediately release Appellant on recognizance on November 25, 1987 pursuant to Ind.R.Crim.P.…