Douglas v. State

SHEPARD, Chief Justice.

On July 29, 1994, Darrel Todd Douglas shot and killed Glen Givens. A jury found Douglas guilty of murder, Ind.Code Ann. § 35-42-1-1 (West Supp.1995), and the trial court sentenced him to sixty years in prison.

The evidence at trial showed that Douglas suddenly appeared next to a car parked outside a liquor store in Gary sometime after 10 pm. He asked Givens, who was seated behind the driver's seat, for a light for his cigarette. Givens told him he should not sneak up on people, that he was liable to get shot, but offered him the light anyway. Douglas leaned over to get…