STATE v. MARION SUPERIOR COURT

No. 49S00-9503-OR-316.

655 N.E.2d 63 (1995)

STATE of Indiana on the Relation of Norman Anthony WOODFORD, Relator, v. The MARION SUPERIOR COURT and the Honorable Patricia J. Gifford, Judge Thereof, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Indiana.

September 7, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Richard Kiefer, Indianapolis, for relator.

Scott C. Newman, Marion County Prosecutor, Mark S. Massa, Chief Counsel, Indianapolis, for respondents.


SHEPARD, Chief Justice.

Relator Norman Woodford requested that we issue a writ of mandate directing the Marion Superior Court to take jurisdiction over his second petition for post-conviction relief. We conclude that the trial court correctly declined to entertain the petition because Woodford did not comply with Post-Conviction Rule 1(12).

In December 1974, Woodford and Robbie Allen Woods held up a Hook's Drug Store at gun point. In the shoot-out that ensued...

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