Legal Opinion

Highley v. State

Indiana Court of Appeals

Decided March 29, 1989No. 27A04-8809-CR-298PublishedCited by 3 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MILLER, Judge.

Vaughn A. Highley appeals his convie-tions of two counts of criminal confinement, class B felonies, after a jury trial. His convictions arise from a domestic dispute during which he allegedly barricaded himself, two children, and a third party in a house and refused to surrender himself to the police for seven and one-half hours. Highley asserts the trial court erred in allowing his ex-wife, Rhonda Tucker Ham-mang, to testify as a rebuttal witness about acts of confinement allegedly committed against her by Highley approximately ten years earlier. We agree and therefore reverse…

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2Cases cited17 opinions

  1. Harris v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1981
  2. Boyd v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1986
  3. Malone v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1982
  4. Bryan v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1983
  5. Justice v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1988

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3Cited by3 opinions

  1. State v. SiemerSupreme Court of Iowa · 1990
  2. James J. Wyatt v. State of Indiana (mem. dec.)Indiana Court of Appeals · 2016
  3. Oo Aka v. State of IndianaIndiana Court of Appeals · 2013

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