Davis v. State

This is an appeal from the denial of a motion to correct errors following the denial of a petition for post-conviction relief. Issues argued by Petitioner (Appellant) are (1) incompetence of his trial counsel and (2) availability of other issues that the trial judge determined had been previously adjudicated or waived.

The petitioner was convicted of kidnapping in a trial by jury and sentenced to life imprisonment. A. direct appeal was prosecuted and determined against him by this Court. Davis v. State, (1968) 249 Ind. 596, 233 N.E.2d 642.

ISSUE I. The petitioner’s claim of incompetence of…