PETTY v. STATE

No. 10S00-8611-CR-944.

532 N.E.2d 610 (1989)

Billy Joe PETTY, Appellant (Defendant below), v. STATE of Indiana, Appellee (Plaintiff below).

Supreme Court of Indiana.

January 11, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anne B. Coffman, Jeffersonville, for appellant.

Linley E. Pearson, Atty. Gen., Gary Damon Secrest, Deputy Atty. Gen., Indianapolis, for appellee.


SHEPARD, Chief Justice.

Appellant Billy Joe Petty was tried before a jury and convicted of burglary, a class B felony, Ind. Code § 35-43-2-1 (Burns 1985 Repl.). The judge sentenced Petty to twenty years, consecutive to any sentence Petty was serving in Kentucky.

On November 11, 1984, Petty and an accomplice burglarized the house of Jeffrey and Regina Hurst. While the Hursts were away, Petty and his accomplice...

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