State v. Johnson

MEMORANDUM OPINION

Defendant appealed his conviction by a jury of robbery in the first degree. The Court of Appeals reversed the conviction for lack of sufficient evidence to support it, but it ordered entry of judgment of conviction of attempted robbery in the first degree. State v. Johnson, 77 Or App 512, 714 P2d 240 (1986).

Defendant petitioned this court for review. He contended that at trial he asserted that he had renounced and abandoned any attempt to use force and that there was evidence from which a jury might so find, that the jury had no occasion to consider this element of attempt…