Sanders v. State

CARLTON, J.,

for the Court.

¶ 1. Robert L. Sanders was arrested and charged with armed robbery. 1 Following the trial, a jury found Sanders guilty of simple robbery. 2 Sanders timely appeals and alleges that the trial court erred in denying Sanders’s motion for a new trial because the verdict is against the overwhelming weight of the evidence. Finding no error, we affirm the trial court’s judgment.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

¶2. At approximately 1:00 a.m. on December 16, 2007, Dominic McNeil and Kelly Bergman were working their shifts at a Subway sandwich shop on University Avenue in Oxford,…