Baker v. State

GIVAN, Chief Justice.

Following a jury trial, appellant was convicted of Robbery and Criminal Confinement, both Class B. felonies. He was sentenced to concurrent fifteen (15) year terms of imprisonment.

The facts are: At approximately 6:80 p.m., on December 21, 1983, Robert Wright was in his rural home near Albany, Indiana. Two men wearing ski masks, one of whom was armed with a knife, entered the house through the back door. Wright was taken into a bedroom where he was bound with electrical cord and a pillowease placed over his head. After remaining in the house somewhere between thirty and…