Johnson v. State

PIVARNIK, Justice.

Defendant-Appellant David Allen Johnson was found guilty of murder by a jury in the St. Joseph Circuit Court. He was sentenced to a fifty (50) year term of imprisonment. He directly appeals, raising several issues which we have restated as follows:

1. limitation of cross-examination;

2. refusal of tendered jury instructions regarding sources of the law, reasonable doubt, and lesser included offenses;

alternate theories of liability; co

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The facts show that in January, 1981, August Lodholtz planned, along with Phyllis…