Torrence v. State

Appellant was charged by indictment with the crime of first degree murder. Trial by jury resulted in a finding of guilty of murder in the second degree. Appellant was accordingly sentenced to the Indiana State Prison for life.

The record in this case discloses the following facts:

On June 8, 1968, George Wilmington, Richard Robinson and Mrs. Gwendolyn Allen were in the Sunset Tavern on Indiana Avenue in Indianapolis having a few drinks. Mrs. Allen telephoned her son, William Harris, the decedent in this case, to come and drive Mrs. Allen and her companions home, because they felt that they had…