Kutscheid v. State

GIVAN, Justice.

A jury trial resulted in the conviction of appellant of Murder, for which he received the maximum sentence of sixty (60) years.

The facts are: In the fall of 1989, appellant and Sherry Miller were business partners operating Indy Ionics, a water treatment firm, where Doug Hauhn, Sherry’s former husband, the victim in this case, worked as an installer. In the months pri- or to the killing, Doug and Sherry, who had split up in part due to Doug’s substance abuse, resumed their relationship to some degree, to the chagrin of appellant, who saw Sherry socially, knew her friends and…