Stewart v. State

DeBRULER, Justice.

A jury found appellant guilty of one count of criminal confinement, .C. 85-42-3-3(a)(1), a class D felony, and one count of criminal deviate conduct, LC. 85-42-4-2, a class B felony. 1 He received a four-year sentence on the confinement conviction and a fifteen-year sentence on the criminal deviate conduct conviction. The sentences were ordered to run consecutively, resulting in a nineteen-year executed sentence. Appellant raises four issues in this direct appeal.

The evidence produced at trial which tended to support the verdict showed that appellant was a city bus driver in…