Love v. State, No. 479S94
| Docket Nº | No. 479S94 |
| Citation | 271 Ind. 473, 393 N.E.2d 178 |
| Case Date | September 04, 1979 |
| Court | Supreme Court of Indiana |
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v.
STATE of Indiana, Appellee.
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Harriette Bailey Conn, Public Defender of Indiana, James G. Holland, Deputy Public Defender, Indianapolis, for appellant.
Theodore L. Sendak, Atty. Gen. of Indiana, Jeffrey K. Baldwin, Deputy Atty. Gen., Indianapolis, for appellee.
PIVARNIK, Justice.
Defendant-appellant Diane Love was charged with commission of a felony while armed, to-wit: robbery, under Ind. Code (Burns 1975) § 35-12-1-1, and was found guilty by a jury on January 18, 1977. She was sentenced to a determinate period of twelve years. The only issue appellant raises in this appeal is whether the evidence is sufficient to sustain the conviction.
[271 Ind. 474] On September 8, 1976, Diane Love entered the apartment of James Carlton Donald, ostensibly pursuant to an arrangement made by Connie Hill for the purpose of having sexual relations with Donald for pay. Love and Hill were both prostitutes and made their living by such means. After Love entered Donald's apartment, she told him she was looking for a man named John and asked him if he knew where John lived. Shorty thereafter, James Brewer entered the apartment armed with a double-barrel sawed-off shotgun and demanded Donald's money and guns. Love told Donald to lay on the bed and to do as Brewer said. She tied Donald's hands behind his back and searched his pockets, taking his watch, wallet and money clip. She then removed a tape player from the bed and searched the bureau drawers. After covering Donald's head with the bed spread, she and Brewer left, taking items valued at $537.
Pete Pappas, who lived near the scene, saw a man and two women in a red 1967 Chevrolet proceed north in the alley behind his house with the lights turned off. According to Pappas, the man and one of the women got out of the automobile and went into the apartment building in which Donald lived. Five to seven minutes later, they returned to the car and drove away. Pappas gave police the license number of the car as 99 C 1327, and related further suspicious activities of the three occupants of the car. Later that night Indianapolis police apprehended Love driving the automobile bearing this license number.
Brewer testified that Love asked him to go to Donald's apartment to help her get money Donald owed her for previous sexual acts. According to Brewer, a fight broke out between them, so he and Love took Donald's property and left. On the other hand, Love testified that Connie Hill had arranged what she termed a "sexual...
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