Bennett v. State

MELVIN, Judge.

Appellant-defendant was charged with the offense of robbery while carrying a firearm and found guilty of such charge by a jury.

Appellant urges reversal and presents two points, viz: 1) alleged incompetency of trial counsel, and 2) failure of the trial court, in absence of request or objection, to charge the jury as to lesser included offenses. We dispose of these contentions in the order presented.

There were no objections presented to the trial court as to the newly found alleged incompetence of counsel. The matter cannot surface for the first time on appeal. State v. Barber,…