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.
(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.").
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.