Bradford v. State

DICKSON, Justice.

The defendant was convicted of arson, a Class B felony, and the murder of Tammy Lohr, whose body was found with twenty-one stab wounds after firefighters extinguished an early-morning fire at her Evansville residence on August 2, 1992. In this direct appeal, he presents the following issues for our review: whether sufficient evidence was presented to support his convictions; whether the verdicts are contrary to law because of the State’s “adoption” of a theory that the defendant killed the victim while acting under sudden heat; whether the discovery of new evidence entitles…