Shelby v. State

PIVARNIK, Justice.

Floyd Shelby, Jr., was tried by jury and convicted of first degree murder in Vander-burgh Circuit Court on February 10, 1978. He was sentenced to life imprisonment on March 9, 1978. He appeals, alleging the court erred in the admission into evidence of his oral statement and a redacted written transcript of that statement, in not permitting a witness to answer a question and in overruling and denying a motion for change of venue from the county.

The evidence revealed that Floyd Shelby, Jr., conspired with Rosetta Wallace to murder her husband, Ben Wallace. Shelby hired Marvin…