Kelley v. State

GIVAN, Chief Justice.

Appellant was convicted by a jury of Robbery, a class B felony, and sentenced to fifteen years of imprisonment.

The facts are these. A man wearing a greasy tan jacket and a yellow ski mask used a sawed-off shotgun to rob the attendants of a gas station in Hammond, Indiana. The robber took approximately three hundred dollars ($800) and fled in a brown Ventura automobile. A few minutes later the police observed a brown Ventura about one mile from the station. The police noticed only one person in the car at that time. They began to follow the car until they saw the head of a…