Brown v. State

HUNTER, Justice.

The defendant, Leroy Brown, was convicted by a jury of robbery, a class B felony. Ind.Code § 35-42-5-1 (Burns 1979 Repl.). He was sentenced to a period of fifteen years in the Indiana Department of Correction. In his direct appeal, he presents the following issue for our review: whether the trial court erred when it overruled defendant’s motion to strike the state’s response to defendant’s “Notice of Alibi.”

The record reveals that in the early evening hours of February 24, 1981, Edward and Beatrice Thurmond were robbed at gunpoint by an intruder at their home, located at 2808…