Defendant committed forgery when he used another person’s credit card at an electronic point of sale terminal and electronically signed the other person’s name on a credit card receipt.
Criminal
Murphy v. State, No. 18S02-1103-CR-142, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind., Mar. 10, 2011)
Adopts Court of Appeals decision that the trial court is the authority to determine whether a defendant is entitled to educational credit time earned in the jail while awaiting trial and sentencing.
Hall v. State, No. 25A05-1008-CR-534, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Mar. 15, 2011)
Where defendant was confined prior to trial on several counties’ unrelated charges and court used discretion to make sentence consecutive to those imposed in the other counties, defendant was entitled to pretrial credit time only against the aggregate of the consecutive sentences.
Gray v. State, No. 82A01-1005-CR-223, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Mar. 8, 2011)
Evidence of constructive possession of marijuana, found in defendant’s house under her coffee table next to two juveniles on the couch, was insufficient to convict.
White v. State, No. 15A01-1008-CR-463, __ N.E.2d __ (Ind. Ct. App., Mar. 9, 2011)
Record of defendant’s felony conviction reached in another state when he was fifteen years old was insufficient to support habitual offender finding without additional evidence on the other state’s procedures assuring that he was convicted as an adult.