Litteral v. State

OPINION

By the Court,

Mowbray, J.:

A jury convicted James Norman Litteral, the appellant, of (1) robbery with the use of a deadly weapon, (2) battery with the intent to commit robbery, and (3) battery with a deadly weapon. He was sentenced to a term of fifteen years for the robbery with an additional fifteen years to run consecutively for the use of a deadly weapon; he was also sentenced to two concurrent ten year terms for each battery conviction. On appeal, appellant urges error: (1) the trial court did not instruct the jury that specific intent was an essential element of robbery; and (2) the…