Bynes v. the State

Branch, Judge.

On appeal from his conviction for armed robbery and harming a police dog, Devante Bynes argues that the evidence was insufficient and that the trial court erred when it refused Bynes’s requests for charges on the justified use of force in self-defense and robbery by intimidation as a lesser included offense. We find no merit in these assertions, but we vacate the portion of Bynes’s sentence pertaining to his conviction for harming a police dog, which imposed a greater sentence than that allowed by law, and remand for resentencing.

“On appeal from a criminal conviction, we view…