White v. State

SELBY, Justice.

Defendant Cassius R. White (“defendant”) was convicted, after a jury trial, of attempted murder, a class A felony. The jury also found defendant to be a habitual offender. The trial court sentenced defendant to forty-five years for the attempted murder conviction enhanced by twenty-five years for being a habitual offender, for a total of seventy years. In challenging his conviction, defendant raises three issues: 1) whether he received ineffective assistance of trial counsel; 2) whether the trial court erred by refusing to instruct the jury on self-defense; and 3) whether, in…