State v. Sykes

STEPHAN, Judge.

Defendant Gregory Sykes appeals from a conviction of robbery in the first degree. Pursuant to the jury’s verdict, the circuit court sentenced him to imprisonment for a term of five years. He contends that the trial court erred in (1) failing to grant his motion for acquittal at the close of all the evidence and his post-trial motion to set aside the jury verdict; (2) failing to submit an instruction on the lesser-included offense of stealing; and (3) refusing to declare a mistrial after the prosecutor asked him if he told the officers who arrested him that the gun he used was a…