Manns v. State

PIVARNIK, Justice.

Defendant-Appellant Jerry Manns was convicted by a jury in the Lake County Superior Court of murder and attempted murder. The trial court subsequently sen tenced him to thirty-five years imprisonment for murder and to twenty-five years imprisonment for attempted murder, said sentences to run concurrently. Appellant now directly appeals and raises the following two issues:

1. sufficiency of the evidence; and

2. trial court's denial of Appellant's mistrial motion.

The facts adduced during trial show that during the late afternoon of November 5, 1982, Cyril Lee and Jeffrey…