Opinion ID: 853096
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 8

Heading: which caused serious bodily injury to Roderick Harmon.

Text: The charging information, which was read to the jury as part of the instructions, charged Carrico with murder by Shooting [Harmon] with a handgun, causing him to die. It also charged Carrico with robbery by knowingly taking United States currency, from the presence of another person by force or threat of force, to-wit: by shooting Roderick Harmon with a handgun, which resulted in serious bodily injury to another person, to-wit: extreme pain to Roderick Harmon. Carrico argues that the act necessary to prove murder, shooting Harmon with a handgun, was the same as the force proved as an element of the robbery. He contends his case is similar to Richardson, where convictions for robbery and battery were at issue and this Court vacated the battery conviction because the force used during the robbery (the beating of the victim) also constituted the battery. Richardson does not bar multiple convictions when the facts establishing one crime also establish only one or even several, but not all, of the elements of a second offense. Spivey v. State, 761 N.E.2d 831, 833 (Ind.2002). That is the case here. Carrico's knowing killing of Harmonby shooting the handgunestablished one element of robbery (force) but not all. Accordingly, conviction for both is consistent with Richardson. There also is no violation under the rules of statutory construction and common law that coexist with the constitutional test set forth in Richardson. See Pierce v. State, 761 N.E.2d 826, 830 (Ind.2002). The trial court reduced the robbery from an A felony to a B felony by reason of the rule that the harm in this murder was the same bodily injury inflicted in the robbery. Enhancement of one offense for the very same harm as another is not permissible. Guyton v. State, 771 N.E.2d 1141, 1143 (Ind.2002) (citing Richardson, 717 N.E.2d at 56 (Sullivan, J., concurring)). But nothing prohibits conviction and sentencing for two crimes with a common element. Accordingly, there was no double jeopardy violation.