HUNTER v. STATE

No. 69S00-9407-CR-632.

676 N.E.2d 14 (1996)

Lewis D. HUNTER, Appellant, v. STATE of Indiana, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Indiana.

December 31, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susan K. Carpenter, Public Defender of Indiana and Gregory L. Lewis, Deputy Public Defender, for Appellant.

Pamela Carter, Attorney General of Indiana and Louis E. Ransdell, Deputy Attorney General, for Appellee.


SULLIVAN, Justice.

Today we determine whether a sentence of sixty years in the Department of Corrections for a defendant who has been convicted of Murder and Burglary and who was sixteen years old at the time of the crime was proper. We hold that the trial court was justified in imposing its sentence and therefore we affirm.

Facts

On Sunday November 17, 1991, James and Kitty Busteed, the son and daughter-in-law of Freida Busteed, stopped over...

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