State v. Henderson

BRASWELL, Judge.

The defendant was convicted of armed robbery with a deadly weapon and sentenced to fourteen years’ imprisonment. He sought to verify his innocence through an alibi defense established through his father. A State’s witness, Robert Shaw, Jr., testified that he and the defendant were coerced into committing the crime by Emery Bradley who was also convicted of the robbery. The defendant on appeal asserts that reversible error was committed by the trial judge’s failure to charge the jury on the defense of duress or coercion or that he was denied effective assistance of counsel by…