Opinion ID: 2120327
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Heading Rank: 33

Heading: Waiver of Issues

Text: Ballard showers us with other alleged errors ... all of which have been waived under a variety of well-known legal principles. Some of these issues are waived for failure to timely object at trial.[1] [1] See, e.g., Zupp v. State, (1972) Ind., 283 N.E.2d 540; Pinkerton v. State, (1972) Ind., 283 N.E.2d 376; Harrison v. State, (1972) Ind., 281 N.E.2d 98; Johnson v. State, (1972) 257 Ind. 682, 278 N.E.2d 577; Langley v. State, (1971) 256 Ind. 199, 267 N.E.2d 538; Crawford v. State, (1973) Ind. App., 298 N.E.2d 22. These are: (1) alleged leading questions propounded by the State; (2) alleged error in permitting Opal's testimony describing the pretrial photographic display. Others must be disregarded because they are predicated upon grounds substantially different than those raised by objection at trial.[2] These are: [2] See, e.g., Jones v. State, (1973) Ind., 296 N.E.2d 407; Cooper v. State, (1972) Ind., 284 N.E.2d 799; Johnson v. State, (1972) Ind., 284 N.E.2d 517; Corrao v. State, (1972) Ind. App., 290 N.E.2d 484; Worrell v. State, (1930) 91 Ind. App. 259, 171 N.E. 208. (1) alleged error in overruling Ballard's Motion to Suppress his statements to police while he was incarcerated on the ground that jail conditions were coercive, although his objection to the evidence at trial merely asserted that the State had failed to prove the corpus deliciti (see Issue Five ); (2) Ballard's claim (totally at war with the record) that the State failed to prove that he was advised of his constitutional rights at the time of his arrest. Review of other issues is precluded because of Ballard's failure to support them with a discernible argument and cited authority in his appellate brief.[3] [3] See, e.g., Loeb v. Loeb, (1973) Ind., 301 N.E.2d 349; Young v. State, (1971) 257 Ind. 173, 273 N.E.2d 285; Maynard v. State, (1973) Ind. App., 301 N.E.2d 200; Conley v. Lothamer, (1971) Ind. App., 276 N.E.2d 602; Cohen v. Burns, (1971) 149 Ind. App. 604, 274 N.E.2d 283; Rule AP. 8.3(A) (7). These relate to: (1) introduction into evidence of certain photographic evidence; (2) certain aspects of Opal's identification testimony. In his petition to transfer, Ballard further asserts that the robbery conviction was without evidence of specific intent, contravening Anderson v. State (1966), 247 Ind. 215, 214 N.E.2d 172. He contends that the taking of the car keys at gun point was merely incidental to the burlgary, as evidenced by the petitioner's merely moving the vehicle to enable him to escape in his own. This, of course, is specious. The absence of a specific intent to commit the robbery at the time the burglary was commenced does not alter the fact that there obviously was a specific intent to take the car keys at the time they were taken. In the first place, the Court of Appeals did write upon this issue and determined that there was sufficient evidence of criminal intent to commit the robbery. Secondly, if the Court of Appeals' treatment of this issue was scant, the petitioner, nevertheless, was not prejudiced, in view of the total lack of merit. In Anderson v. State (supra) the appellant was convicted of robbery under circumstances where the assault and battery was proven but there was no evidence that anything was taken or any evidence from which it could be inferred that there was an intent to take something. The case has no application whatsoever.