Opinion ID: 2022910
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Text: Appellant North further claims that his sixty-year sentence was manifestly unreasonable. Absent a showing of manifest unreasonableness, this Court will not alter a sentence. Williams v. State, (1979) 271 Ind. 656, 395 N.E.2d 239; Hanic v. State, (1980) Ind. App., 406 N.E.2d 335. Where the sentence is within statutory limits and imposed after the trial court had given full consideration to the pre-sentence report and found that aggravating circumstances outweighed mitigating circumstances, this Court will not set it aside. Jones v. State, (1981) Ind., 422 N.E.2d 1197; Hanic, supra . Ind. Code § 35-4.1-4-3 (transferred to § 35-50-1A-3, Burns Repl. 1979) requires the trial court to make a statement of aggravating circumstances in support of an enhanced offense or consecutive sentence. Forrester v. State, (1982) Ind., 440 N.E.2d 475; Bundy v. State, (1981) Ind., 427 N.E.2d 1077. North does not claim the trial court failed to make his findings and state his reasons in sufficient detail to justify giving him the aggravated twenty (20) years in addition to the presumptive forty (40) year sentence. The record shows the trial court did, in fact, give sufficient reasons and details to justify the sixty (60) year sentence pursuant to Page v. State, (1981) Ind., 424 N.E.2d 1021. Rather, North claims the evidence showed his noninvolvement in the actual killing to the extent the trial judge was not justified in giving him the aggravated sentence. North's argument has no merit. The evidence showed all three robbers burst into the Gary National Bank obviously acting in concert. North acted along with the other two in carrying out his part of their joint enterprise by taking money while threatening deadly force against the employees and customers of the Bank. When the robbers met resistance by the police in attempting to exit the Bank, all three fired from the Bank vestibule. North, as well as the other two, took part in the firing under which Lieutenant Yaros fell. The only thing in which he did not participate was the final shot, attributed to co-defendant Averhart, which was described by some of the witnesses as the execution shot. Finally, the evidence showed that after the high speed running gun battle, North was apprehended just as he leveled a high powered pistol at another Gary police officer. The testimony of the officer who apprehended North and disarmed him, strongly implied that had he not been interrupted North would have killed this officer. Therefore, considering the character of the offense and the offender, the sentence imposed on North cannot be said to be manifestly unreasonable and we do not find it so.