Dill v. State

ON PETITION TO TRANSFER

DICKSON, Justice

The defendant, Michael S. Dill, was convicted of burglary1 and conversion.2 He was acquitted of two counts of theft. The Court of Appeals affirmed. Dill v. State, 727 N.E.2d 22 (Ind.Ct.App.2000). We granted transfer to address the defendant’s claim that the trial court erred in instructing the jury that it could consider the flight of a person after the commission of a crime. The Court of Appeals observed that Indiana jurisprudence remains unclear about the use of such instructions. Id. at 25.

In this appeal, the defendant argues, in part, that flight…