Owens v. State

HUNTER, Justice.

The petitioner, Stephan Owens, is before this Court appealing from the denial of his petition for relief under Post-Conviction Relief, Rule 1. He was convicted of three counts of armed robbery and of being a habitual offender. Thereafter, petitioner was sentenced to a total of seventy years' imprisonment. We then affirmed his conviction in Owens v. State, (1981) Ind., 427 N.E.2d 880. He raises the following issue in this petition: .

1. Whether petitioner was denied his constitutional right to the effective assistance of counsel.

We first note that petitioner has the burden of…