DIPERT v. STATE

No. 1071S310.

286 N.E.2d 405 (1972)

Timothy V. DIPERT, Appellant, v. STATE of Indiana, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Indiana.

August 29, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert W. Miller, Elkhart, for appellant.

Theodore L. Sendak, Atty. Gen., Darrel K. Diamond, Deputy Atty. Gen., for appellee.


ARTERBURN, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a conviction of first degree murder in which the appellant [a boy, 15 years of age at the time of the offense] was sentenced to life imprisonment.

The facts briefly are that he killed his seven-year-old niece, Shirley Ann Watts, while acting as a babysitter in the home. Dipert covered her head with a sweatshirt, tied her hands behind her, placed a sock in her mouth, took her into the bathroom and shot her with...

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