Paul v. State

DICKSON, Justice.

Appellant-defendant Jeffrey J. Paul was convicted of murder and class A felony robbery. This direct appeal presents two questions: 1) sufficiency of the evidence for a conviction of robbery and 2) refusal to submit an instruction on the lesser included offense of voluntary manslaughter.

The evidence favorable to the judgment is that on February 27, 1991, the defendant, carrying a gym bag containing a .38 caliber handgun, visited two friends, Travis Garrett and Jeffrey Zenthoefer, at their apartment in Mount Vernon, Indiana. During that evening, the defendant drank whiskey and…