Perkins v. State

PIVARNIK, Justice.

This direct appeal is brought by Defendants-Appellants Larry Perkins and George Redman, claiming the trial court erred in allowing them to be retried, over their objections, as habitual offenders. The instant trial represented the third time in the same cause that Perkins and Red-man had been tried as habitual offenders.

On April 13, 1983, in the Elkhart Cireuit Court, Larry Perkins was found guilty by a jury of Conspiracy to Traffic With an Inmate and Conspiracy to Deal in More Than Thirty Grams of Marijuana, both Class D felonies. On the same date, Co-Defendant George…