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- Title: Johnny Williams v. State Indiana
- Author : Supreme Court of Indiana No. 377S175
- Release Date : January 15, 1978
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 57 KB
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Appellant Williams was found guilty of first-degree murder and murder in the perpetration of a robbery at the Conclusion of a jury trial in the Lake Superior Court on October 16, 1976. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. This case involves the robbery of a lounge in Gary, Indiana, by a group of men in February of 1976. We have recently affirmed the conviction of two of appellant Williams' co-defendants, tried jointly with Williams in the same trial, in Rogers v. State, (1978) 268 Ind. 370, 375 N.E.2d 1089 and Stone v. State, (1978) 268 Ind. 672, 377 N.E.2d 1372. The present appeal involves some of the same issues, based upon the same operative facts, which we decided in the Rogers and Stone cases. Three issues are raised in this appeal: (1) whether the trial court erred in denying appellant's motions to sever, in view of the admission of redacted statements of co-defendant Lorenzo Stone; (2) whether the trial court erred in admitting prior statements of state's witness Elliott James, and the prior proceedings on James guilty plea, and; (3) whether the evidence was sufficient to support appellant's murder convictions.