SHEPHERD v. STATE

No. 09S00-8711-CR-1056.

538 N.E.2d 242 (1989)

Marcia SHEPHERD, Appellant, v. STATE of Indiana, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Indiana.

Rehearing Denied July 28, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susan K. Carpenter, Public Defender, David P. Freund, Deputy Public Defender, Indianapolis, for appellant.

Linley E. Pearson, Atty. Gen., Amy Schaeffer Good, Deputy Atty. Gen., Indianapolis, for appellee.


GIVAN, Justice.

A jury trial resulted in the conviction of appellant of the crime of Murder, for which she received a sentence of forty (40) years.

Appellant, her husband, and the victim were involved in an extramarital triangle which the jury found to result in appellant killing the victim. Although the evidence in this case is sufficient to sustain the verdict, it was entirely circumstantial. One of the State's witnesses, Jenny Lynn Okuly, testified that...

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