Brown v. State

DeBRULER, Justice.

Appellant Larry Eugene Brown, defendant below, was convicted in a trial by jury of robbery, a class A felony. The court increased the presumptive sentence by ten (10) years, thereby imposing a term of imprisonment of forty (40) years. In this direct appeal, he raises the following issues: (1) sufficiency of evidence of identity, (2) the propriety of the refusal to give the defense instruction regarding evidence of identity, and (8) the propriety of the sentence.

The gist of this case is that two armed men entered the warehouse of Maloley's bakery in Fort Wayne at midnight on…