Taylor v. State

ON DIRECT APPEAL

SHEPARD, Chief Justice.

Appellant Raleigh Taylor was tried before a jury and found guilty but mentally ill of murder, Ind.Code Ann. § 85-42-1-1 (West Supp.1990), and guilty but mentally ill of burglary resulting in serious bodily injury, a class A felony, Ind.Code Ann. § 85-48-21 (West 1986). The court sentenced Taylor to consecutive terms of sixty years for murder and fifty years for burglary. We affirm.

The evidence favorable to the verdict shows that the murder victim, Tawana Smith, was the daughter of Taylor's long-time girlfriend Cathy Smith. Taylor lived with Cathy and her…