ROBB, Chief Judge.
Carolyn Baird appeals her convictions for operating a motor vehicle without financial responsibility, failure to register, failure to have the proper license for operating a motorcycle, all infractions, and driving while suspended with a prior conviction, a Class A misdemeanor. She raises two issues for our review, which we consolidate and restate as whether the State presented sufficient evidence to support her convictions. As to Baird's three traffic infraction convictions, we conclude the evidence was sufficient to support her convictions. As to Baird's conviction for driving while suspended with a prior conviction, we conclude the evidence was insufficient for that conviction, but we remand to the trial court with instructions to enter a conviction of the lesser included offense of driving while suspended, a Class A infraction.
On September 1, 2010, Officer Karmire observed a three-wheeled "moped-motorcycle" traveling approximately forty miles per hour with no license plate. Transcript at 6. Officer Karmire followed the vehicle for at least two blocks, concluding it was traveling around thirty to thirty-five miles per hour. After Officer Karmire stopped the three-wheeled vehicle, Baird, the driver, offered him two different documents. The first was her title, which contained the make, model, and vehicle identification number of the vehicle, the vehicle's maximum speed of twenty-five miles per hour, and the vehicle's engine specifications of 49.5 cubic centimeter cylinder capacity and two horsepower. The second document appeared to be the vehicle's manual, and it stated the vehicle's maximum speed was 100 kilometers per hour.
Baird was operating the vehicle with a suspended driver's license, no license plate, and no insurance. The State charged Baird with the following: driving with a suspended license, a Class A misdemeanor;
Our standard of reviewing a sufficiency claim is well-settled:
Drane v. State, 867 N.E.2d 144, 146-47 (Ind.2007) (quotations, citations, and footnote omitted) (emphasis in original).
The Indiana Code defines the pertinent terms for our review as follows:
Ind.Code § 9-13-2-109.
Ind.Code § 9-13-2-108. A "motor vehicle" is defined as a "vehicle that is self-propelled." Ind.Code § 9-13-2-105.
The traffic infraction operating a motor vehicle without financial responsibility requires that Baird was driving a "motor
Baird argues the State failed to provide sufficient evidence that the vehicle was not a "motorized bicycle" because the specifications of the vehicle listed on the title she presented to Officer Karmire were within the statutory limits of a "motorized bicycle." This, however, was not the only evidence before the trial court. Officer Karmire testified that he trailed Baird traveling between thirty and thirty-five miles per hour; that, in addition to title, she also presented a manual that listed the vehicle's top-speed as sixty miles per hour; and she verbally affirmed that the vehicle was capable of going sixty miles per hour. We will not reweigh evidence or assess credibility on appeal. See Drane, 867 N.E.2d at 146. Viewing the conflicting evidence "most favorably to the trial court's ruling," we conclude the evidence was sufficient to convict Baird of the three charged traffic offenses. See id. (quoting Wright v. State, 828 N.E.2d 904, 906 (Ind.2005)). It could reasonably be determined that a vehicle capable of going sixty miles per hour has a maximum design speed of more than twenty-five miles per hour on a flat service, taking the vehicle Baird was driving out of the definition of "motorized bicycle."
As to her conviction for driving while suspended with a prior conviction, Baird argues the evidence was insufficient because the State failed to show which
An offense is a lesser included offense if it can be established by the same material elements or less than all the material elements of the original offense charged. Trotter, 838 N.E.2d at 560. Baird's original conviction under Indiana Code section 9-24-19-2 requires all the same elements of section 9-24-19-1 with the additional requirement that the State show specifically which Indiana Code section the defendant previously violated to trigger section 9-24-9-2. Thus, the Class A infraction is a lesser included offense of the Class A misdemeanor. See id. (concluding the Class A infraction of Indiana Code section 9-24-19-1 is a lesser included offense of the Class A misdemeanor of Indiana Code section 9-24-19-2).
The evidence was sufficient to establish the material elements common to both offenses. Baird was driving a motor vehicle and her license was suspended. Therefore, we reverse Baird's conviction for driving while suspended with a prior conviction and remand with instructions for the trial court to modify the judgment from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class A infraction.
The evidence is sufficient to sustain Baird's three traffic infraction convictions. However, we reverse Baird's conviction for driving while suspended with a prior conviction as a Class A misdemeanor because the evidence is insufficient to sustain that conviction, but we remand for the trial court to enter judgment on the count of driving while suspended as a Class A infraction.
Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded with instructions.
BARNES, J., and BRADFORD, J., concur.