TATA v. STATE

No. 384S83.

486 N.E.2d 1025 (1986)

Michael TATA, Appellant, v. STATE of Indiana, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Indiana.

January 3, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald C. Swanson, Jr., Fort Wayne, for appellant.

Linley E. Pearson, Atty. Gen., Richard Albert Alford, Deputy Atty. Gen., Indianapolis, for appellee.


GIVAN, Chief Justice.

Appellant was found guilty by a jury of Attempted Murder, a Class A felony. The court imposed a fifty (50) year sentence.

The facts are: In August of 1982, Rhonda Grider Chapman lived alone in an apartment in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. At approximately 3:30 a.m., on August 27, she heard the sound of a key unlocking her apartment door. She got out of bed and turned on the hall light. There she found appellant, who she recognized as the maintenance...

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