People v. Beard

Defendant and a companion were charged with armed robbery of a party store on December 30, 1975, in the City of Detroit. Defendant’s companion entered a plea of guilty to a charge of armed robbery, while defendant stood trial and was convicted by a jury of unarmed robbery, MCLA 750.530; MSA 28.798. He was sentenced on April 16, 1976, to 10 to 15 years in prison and appeals as of right.

Defendant assigns two errors to the trial court. First, he claims that the trial court’s instruction to the jury to consider each of the seven lesser included offenses was unduly restrictive and coer cive,…