Walker v. State

ON PETITION FOR REHEARING

DeBRULER, Justice.

This cause comes to us on a petition for rehearing of this Court's decision in Walker v. State (1993), Ind., 621 N.E.2d 627. We grant rehearing to correct error in that opinion, to clarify the applicability of certain federal due process claims to cases on direct appeal, and to modify the mandate. We affirm in part, reverse in part, and remand.

Police found the bodies of Frank George Miller and his wife May Doria Miller on September 26 and 27, 1959. Responding to information provided by his mother, police questioned Appellant Floyd Altis Walker, a…