People v. King

Following a jury trial, defendant Clarence King, Jr., was convicted of the offenses of rape, burglary, and robbery, and was subsequently sentenced to concurrent terms of 10 to 30 years on the rape conviction, 3 to 9 years on the burglary conviction, and 2 to 6 years on the robbery conviction.

On appeal, the defendant argues that he was denied a fair trial because of the prosecutor’s prejudicial closing argument, that he was not proved guilty of robbery beyond a reasonable doubt, and that the trial court erred in failing to instruct the jury with a proper robbery instruction.

At trial, the…