Debose v. State

HUNTER, Justice.

The petitioner, Johnny Albert Debose, is before this Court appealing from the denial ° of his petition for relief under Post-Conviction Relief, Rule 1. He was convicted by a jury of robbery and was sentenced to a term of imprisonment of forty years. His conviction was affirmed by this Court in Debose v. State, (1979) 270 Ind. 675, 389 N.E.2d 272. He now raises the single issue of whether he was denied his constitutional right to the effective assistance of counsel where trial counsel did not tender an instruction on self-defense.

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