Sypniewski v. State

3 Citing cases

  1. Lawson v. State

    274 Ind. 419 (Ind. 1980)   Cited 30 times
    In Lawson v. State (1980), 274 Ind. 419, 412 N.E.2d 759, cert. denied, 452 U.S. 919, 101 S.Ct. 3057, 69 L.Ed.2d 424 (1981), this Court sought out and found that an express notice was given the accused of the prosecutor's intention to proceed upon a theory of accessory liability in the prosecutor's response to the defendant's notice of alibi.

    The content of the message, however, tends to speak for itself; it is written in the second person, encouraging a girl named "Sandy" — among other things — to reject other males and have sexual relations with her father. Of course, the jury was free to reject appellant's explanation of the writing and conclude that the letter referred to Sandy and him. Lock v. State, (1980) 273 Ind. 315, 403 N.E.2d 1360, 1373; Riggenbach v. State, (1979) 272 Ind. 322, 397 N.E.2d 953, 956; Sypniewski v. State, (1977) 267 Ind. 224, 232, 368 N.E.2d 1359, 1364. We find this writing bears a great deal of relevance to this case and was properly admitted.

  2. Brown v. State

    691 N.E.2d 438 (Ind. 1998)   Cited 89 times
    Holding that, although defendant did not own the home in which he was staying, he had been living there for two and a half months with his girlfriend and thus had a reasonable expectation of privacy in the premises search (the bedroom)

    (where the jury was instructed that "knowingly" and "intentionally" may be inferred from the alleged act itself, "if established by the evidence, taken into consideration with all of the facts and circumstances surrounding or related to such act, as disclosed by the evidence, if the jury should determine such an inference should be drawn"); Norton v. State, 273 Ind. 635, 666, 408 N.E.2d 514, 534 (1980) (where the jury was provided an instruction which stated that "If the act of killing is perpetrated with a deadly weapon used in a manner likely to produce death, the purpose to kill may be inferred from the act of killing."); Sypniewski v. State, 267 Ind. 224, 228, 368 N.E.2d 1359, 1362 (1977) (where the court found the following instruction to be an accurate statement of existing law: "An intent and purpose to kill may be inferred from the deliberate use of a deadly weapon in a manner likely to cause death.").

  3. Pollard; Brown v. State

    270 Ind. 599 (Ind. 1979)   Cited 74 times
    Holding under circumstances of case not involving separation or divorce, husband has legitimate expectation of privacy in vehicle titled to spouse

    Since all of the court's instructions are to be read as a whole, there is no error here. Sypniewski v. State, (1977) 267 Ind. 224, 368 N.E.2d 1359, 1362. X.