Ballard v. State

OPINION

RILEY, Judge.

STATEMENT OF THE CASE

Appellant-Defendant, Robert O. Ballard (Ballard), appeals his conviction for voluntary manslaughter, a Class A felony, as a lesser included offense of Count I, murder, a felony, Ind.Code § 85-42-1-1.

We affirm, in part and reverse, in part.

ISSUES

Ballard raises two issues on appeal, which we restate as follows:

1. Whether the State presented suffi-client evidence to disprove Ballard's claim of self-defense; and

2. Whether the trial court abused its discretion in sentencing Ballard to an aggravated sentence of forty years, based on Ballard's criminal…