Bates v. State

DICKSON, Justice.

Appellant-Defendant Robert J. Bates brings this direct appeal following conviction of battery, class C felony, on which he was sentenced to a term of eight (8) years imprisonment, enhanced by thirty (80) years upon the jury's verdict finding defendant a habitual offender.

On the date of the offense, both the defendant and one Kevin Osborne were inmates in the maximum restraint unit of the Indiana Reformatory.

Defendant contends that the trial court erred as follows:

1. in excluding defendant's evidence regarding prison life and its inherent dangers, generally; and,

2. by…