Wade v. State

GIVAN, Chief Judge.

Appellant was convicted of armed robbery and of inflicting an injury in the perpetration of a robbery. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Shortly after midnight on July 23,1975, a black man with a stocking over his face accosted the attendants at Richard’s Market Basket on East 52nd Street in Indianapolis. The intruder ordered one attendant to lie face down on the floor and then proceeded to tie the attendant’s hands behind his back. The attacker then shot the attendant in the back. The bullet pierced the attendant’s body between his liver and kidney. He was hospitalized…