State v. Redmond

STROUD, Judge.

*580 Morquel Redmond appeals his conviction of robbery with a dangerous weapon. Defendant argues that the trial court erred by failing to instruct the jury on the lesser included offense of common law robbery. Because the trial court could have found the box cutter to be a dangerous weapon as a matter of law, despite submitting this issue to the jury, Defendant was not entitled to a jury instruction on the lesser included offense of common law robbery. Defendant's trial was free of prejudicial error.

I. Background

The State's evidence tended to show that on 20 March 2015, Defendant…