Purcell v. State

ON PETITION FOR REHEARING

STATON, Judge.

This Court affirmed the conviction of Terry W. Purcell for the offense of conversion. Purcell v. State (1980), Ind.App., 406 *535N.E.2d 1255. In that opinion, we decided a statement obtained in contravention of the Lewis mandates1 could be used for the purpose of impeachment. In Purcell’s petition for rehearing, he contends that this Court erred in not addressing the issue of “volun-tariness.” The Lewis mandates and the issue of voluntariness — though inherently intertwined 2 — involved two analytically distinct issues. In our opinion affirming Purcell’s…