Scott v. State

GIVAN, Justice.

A jury trial resulted in the conviction of appellant for Burglary, a Class A felony, and Murder While Committing a Burglary. He received a thirty (80) year sentence for burglary and a forty (40) year sentence for murder, enhanced by ten (10) years by reason of aggravating cireumstances, for a total term of eighty (80) years imprisonment.

The facts are: On the evening of April 18, 1984, appellant, a juvenile, and his companion decided to burglarize the home of an 89-year-old woman for whom appellant had done odd jobs. Appellant broke the window of her back door with an iron bar…