Loy v. State

PRENTICE, Justice.

Defendant (Appellant) was convicted of Murder, Ind.Code § 35-42-1-1 (Burns 1979), and sentenced to forty-five (45) years imprisonment. This direct appeal presents the following issues.(1) Whether the trial court erred in admitting two sets of photographic slides into evidence.(2) Whether the evidence is sufficient to sustain the verdict.

ISSUE I

At the Oakwood Trailer Park in the early morning hours of September 6, 1979, the Portland Fire Department extinguished a fire in the trailer of Bruce Lykins. Lykins’ nude body was found lying face down in the bedroom. The hands and…