State v. Glover

This is an appeal from a final order of the Circuit Court of Marion County, dated September 21, 1988, which ruled that the defendant below, Virgil Glover, was not entitled to a new trial. The defendant asserts that the failure of his trial attorney to file a timely notice of alibi defense amounts to ineffective assistance of counsel. We agree, and we reverse the judgment of the circuit court.

On May 23,1984, the defendant was convicted of aggravated robbery and malicious wounding after a jury trial in the Circuit Court of Marion County.

The State’s evidence at trial was that sometime between…