Vennard v. State

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• concluding that convictions for murder and robbery constituted double jeopardy where the robbery was elevated to a Class A felony based on the same serious bodily injury, i.e. death, that was used to establish the murder conviction
• holding that defendant's convictions for both murder and robbery elevated to a Class A felony violated common-law rules against double jeopardy where the evidence of serious bodily injury was used to elevate the robbery conviction and to support murder conviction
• reducing conviction for Class A felony robbery to Class B felony robbery to remedy double jeopardy conviction where jury was instructed on Class B felony robbery

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).