Jesse L. Payne v. State of Indiana

Najam, Judge.

Statement of the Case

[1] In Barcroft v. State , 111 N.E.3d 997 , 1002-06 (Ind. 2018), the Indiana Supreme Court held that a fact-finder's conclusion that a criminal defendant was sane at the time of the commission of an offense could be supported by circumstantial demeanor evidence 1 alone, even if the unanimous opinion of three court-appointed mental-health experts was that the defendant was suffering from a delusional psychosis at the time of the offense and that the circumstantial demeanor evidence was consistent with the defendant's delusions. In this appeal, Jesse L. Payne,…