State v. Jones

CRANDALL, Judge.

Defendant, Melvin Louis Jones, appeals from his conviction, after a jury trial, of robbery in the first degree and the resultant sentence of fifteen years’ imprisonment.

On appeal defendant claims three points of trial court error: (1) the indictment was insufficient to confer jurisdiction because it failed to allege an essential element of robbery in the first degree, to wit, violence toward the victim or putting the victim in fear; (2) by overruling defendant’s motion for judgment of acquital because the State failed to prove the victim was subjected to violence or was put in…