Owens v. State

SULLIVAN, Justice.

On June 14, 1992, a jury convicted Michael C. Owens in Ripley Cireuit Court on six of seven counts with which he had been charged: Battery, a Class C felony (Count II); 1 four counts of Intimidation as Class D felonies (Counts III, IV, VI, and VII); 2 and Murder (Count V). 3 The jury acquitted Owens of Criminal Confinement (Count I). 4

The trial court imposed a sentence of one and a half years on each of the four intimidation counts and enhanced the sentence on each count by one and a half years for aggravating cireumstances. It imposed a sentence of four years on the battery…