Dobbs v. State

Hill, Justice.

Clarence Ricky Dobbs was tried by a judge without a jury and convicted of armed robbery, aggravated assault, and motor vehicle theft. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for armed robbery, ten years for aggravated assault to run consecutively, and five years for motor vehicle theft to run concurrently with the ten year sentence. He was represented at trial by retained counsel. He is represented in this appeal by different counsel.

At trial the victim identified the defendant as a boy (age 16) who had worked for her the summer before. She testified that the defendant came to her…