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- Title: Tony Monroe Lewis v. State Indiana
- Author : Supreme Court Of Indiana
- Release Date : January 31, 1981
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 62 KB
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This cause comes to us on the States petition to Transfer from the Fourth District Court of Appeals. Defendant-Appellant Tony Monroe Lewis was convicted of burglary and theft in Marion Criminal Court. One of the issues raised on appeal was the giving by the trial court of a supplemental "Allen charge" to the jury after the jury had indicated they were having difficulty arriving at a verdict. The Court of Appeals found that giving this charge constituted reversible error, in that it violated Lewiss right to a fair and impartial trial by jury as guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Lewis v. State, (1980) Ind. App. , 409 N.E.2d 1276. The propriety of a trial court giving the "Allen" type charge has been an issue that has continued to frustrate the trial and appellate courts of this State, as well as those of the federal and state courts of all other jurisdictions. For this reason and in view of the States claim that an apparent conflict exists between the Lewis decision and a prior decision of the Court of Appeals, First Distict, in Guffey v. State, (1979) Ind. App. , 386 N.E.2d 692, we feel obligated to write on this subject. Accordingly, we grant transfer and vacate the opinion of the Court of Appeals.