Kimball v. State

PIVARNIK, Justice.

This cause comes to us on a Petition to Transfer from the Second District Court of Appeals. Said Petition was brought by Appellee, the State of Indiana. The facts show that on October 20, 1982, at approximately 6:00 a.m., Almeda Conwell was on her way to work when Appellant Wayman Kimball, her ex-boyfriend, approached her on the sidewalk. In the course of general conversation, Conwell noticed a knife in Appellant's hand and grabbed for it. There was a "tussle" during which Conwell was stabbed in the arm and cut slightly on her breast. |

The Public Defender's office was…