Pyle v. State

DeBRULER, Justice.

This is a direct appeal from a conviction of attempted murder, I.C. § 35-42-1-1 and 35-41-5-1, and from a conviction of confinement, a class B felony, I.C. § 35-42-3-3. The case was tried before a jury. Appellant received a forty-year sentence for attempted murder and a ten-year sentence, to run consecutively, for confinement. He also was convicted on a separate count of confinement and received a ten-year sentence which is to run concurrently to the sentence for attempted murder; however, he does not appeal this conviction and sentence.

Appellant raises four issues on…