Harris v. State

PATTERSON, Judge.

The appellant, Margaret L. Harris, was indicted and convicted for the offense of robbery in the first degree, as proscribed by § 13A-8-41, Code of Alabama 1975. She was sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment.

We have reviewed the issues raised and consider only one to merit our attention: Whether trial counsel was ineffective in neglecting to object to the trial court’s failure to instruct the jury on those elements of first degree robbery which are encompassed in § 13A-8-43. In instructing the jury on the elements of the offense charged, the court stated the following:

“Now,…