Riggs v. State

The Appellant, Michael Terry Riggs, was convicted on January 28, 1974, of the first degree murder of one Larry Gillespie. Sentenced to life imprisonment on February 14, 1974, the Appellant filed a Motion to Correct Errors with the trial court on April 3, 1974. It is from the overruling of this motion on April 29, 1974, that the Appellant now presents this appeal.

The evidence at trial revealed that the body of the victim was discovered by an officer of the Indiana State Police on April 3, 1974. The officer had been directed to the Clark County mobile home of the victim to investigate a…