Serrano v. State

Defendant (Appellant) was convicted of murder in the perpetration of or attempt to perpetrate a rape and was sentenced to life imprisonment. His appeal to this Court presents the following three issues for our determination :(1) Did the trial court err in overruling the defendant’s Ind. R. Crim. P. 4 (B) motion for discharge?(2) Did the trial court err in excluding evidence of the defendant’s voluntary submission to a polygraph test and evidence of the results of such test?(3) Was the evidence insufficient, as a matter of law, to support the guilty verdict?

We answer each of the foregoing…