George Metcalf v. State Indiana

The defendant, George Metcalf, was charged with infliction of an injury during a robbery. He was tried before a jury, which found him guilty. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. He appeals raising the sufficiency of the evidence as his only issue. The defendant contends that there was insufficient and contradictory evidence as to whether he was the one who shot Donald Rhymes. He also contends that the state's witnesses' failure to acknowledge that they knew their first cousin, Steven Rhymes, and evidence that Steven was at the scene on the day of the crime indicates that the witnesses are protecting Rhymes.