McKenzie v. State

Phipps, Judge.

Laderrickus McKenzie was charged with the armed robbery of Berry Riggins and convicted of the lesser included offense of robbery by force. Following the denial of his motion for new trial, he appeals. He complains of the trial court’s refusal to admit evidence of Riggins’s subsequent death from alcoholism and of the court’s instructions to the jury on the credibility of witnesses and statements by a defendant. We find no reversible error and thus affirm.

State’s witnesses James Bland and Sylvestor Macedo testified that on the afternoon in question, they were driving on Candler…