Roberts v. State

PARKER, Judge.

Jewell Roberts appeals the final judgment that adjudicated him guilty of four counts of kidnapping, four counts of robbery with a deadly weapon, fourteen counts of lewd and lascivious act on or in the presence of a child, and three counts of sexual battery with a deadly weapon. He raised three issues relative to his convictions, but only one has merit.

The state’s evidence established that Roberts approached four girls under the age of sixteen at a ballfield area in a city park. He held a knife to one of the girls and ordered all of the girls into a nearby ballfield dugout.…