SMITH v. STATE

No. 79S00-9505-CR-00539.

675 N.E.2d 693 (1996)

Joshua P. SMITH, Appellant (Defendant Below), v. STATE of Indiana, Appellee (Plaintiff Below).

Supreme Court of Indiana.

December 30, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marcel Katz Law Offices of Marcel Katz, Lafayette, for appellant.

Pamela Carter, Attorney General of Indiana, Christopher L. Lafuse, Deputy Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General, Indianapolis, for appellee.


SELBY, Justice.

Appellant Joshua Smith entered a plea of guilty to murder and was convicted of that crime. The court sentenced Appellant to a term of sixty years, with fifty years to be executed, five years on supervised probation, and five years on unsupervised probation. In making its sentencing decision, the court relied upon one of two different but simultaneously existing murder sentencing statutes. Appellant raises two issues: (1) whether the trial court sentenced...

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