State v. Lacy

SOMERVILLE, Judge.

Defendant was convicted by jury of first degree robbery and sentenced to seven years imprisonment.

His sole point of error on appeal is that the trial court should have declared a mistrial, as requested, because of allegedly prejudicial statements made by the prosecuting attorney during closing argument.

A short statement of facts will suffice because the sufficiency of the state’s evidence to support the conviction has not been questioned in defendant’s brief. Bernard Davis, the victim of the robbery, was employed by the Jet TV & Stereo Rental Company as a bill collector and…