Brendel v. State

GIVAN, Chief Justice.

Appellant was charged by way of information with Confinement, Rape and Robbery. A jury returned verdicts of guilty on all three counts.

On the evening of March 22, 1982, the victim, J.J., a black woman, was accosted as she was leaving a store in Hammond, Indiana, around 8:45 P.M. A man forced her at knifepoint to open her car door and got inside with her. The man sat in the driver's seat and the victim sat on the passenger's side. He ordered her to give him her money and jewelry. The man then told her he had robbed and killed a "nigger-woman" before when she attempted to…