Rowe v. State

GIVAN, Justice.

A jury trial resulted in the conviction of appellant of one count of Murder and two counts of Attempted Murder, a Class A felony, for which he received consecutive terms of forty (40) years, thirty (80) years, and thirty (80) years, respectively.

The facts are: Shortly after 9:00 p.m. on July 9, 1986 appellant, age eighteen, visited his parents at their home in Terre Haute, Indiana. While his father was asleep on the living room couch and his mother was working in the kitchen, appellant told his 18-year-old sister Gretchen to wait for him in her bedroom. He then produced a .32…