State v. Young

MEYER, Justice.

Defendant assigns as error the trial court’s failure to suppress statements he made to a police detective, testimony by a witness offered by the State that the defendant had assaulted and robbed her, certain statements made by the prosecutor in his argument to the jury, and the trial judge’s jury instructions to the jury that a knife was a deadly weapon as a matter of law. We find no error in defendant’s trial or in the sentences imposed.

The State’s evidence tended to show that, in the early morning hours of Saturday, 17 March 1984, Peggy Jenkins arrived at the emergency room…