Dixon v. Commonwealth

EDWARD P. HILL, Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment entered pursuant to a jury verdict finding the appellant guilty of armed robbery and fixing his punishment at 10 years in prison and providing that that imprisonment run consecutively with a life sentence he is currently serving under a previous conviction for a like offense.

Two arguments are presented in an effort to reverse the judgment. First the appellant argues that he was entitled to an instruction admonishing the jury not to indulge in any presumption against appellant because of his failure to testify. The appellant relies upon…