Askew v. State

GIYAN, Chief Judge.

Appellant was charged with the crime of Murder. He was found guilty by a jury and sentenced to a forty (40) year term of imprisonment.

The decedent, Paul Sargeant, lived with his grandmother, one Anna English, in an apartment in Indianapolis. She testified the decedent was part of a narcotics distribution operation headed by appellant. On May 27, 1980, appellant visited Mrs. English’s apartment looking for the decedent, who was not there at the time. Mrs. English stated appellant said he was going to kill the decedent over “his money,” which she assumed meant money the…