Wallace v. State

A jury convicted Carlos Wallace of murder and attempted murder. The trial court sentenced him to concurrent presumptive terms of fifty-five years and thirty years respectively. In this direct appeal, Wallace raises three issues for our review which we rephrase as: (1) did the trial court err by admitting post-mortem photographs of the murder victim, (2) was the evidence sufficient to negate Wallace’s claim of self-defense, and (3) did the trial court properly sentence Wallace.

We affirm.

The facts most favorable to the verdict show that on December 19, 1996, Wallace paged his long-time…