Howard v. State

HUNTER, Justice.

The petitioner, William Howard, is before this Court appealing from the denial of his pro se petition for relief under Post-Convietion Relief, Rule 1. He was convicted by a jury of burglary and was found to be a habitual offender. He is serving a term of life imprisonment. We affirmed his conviction in Howard v. State, (1978) 268 Ind. 589, 377 N.E.2d 628. He raises the following three issues in this petition:

1. Whether it was fundamental error when the trial court permitted petitioner to appear at trial in leg shackles;.2. Whether the trial court erred in allowing defendant to…