People v. Laster

Defendant was charged with assault with intent to rob while armed, MCL 750.89; MSA 28.284. At the conclusion of a one-day waiver trial, defendant was found guilty of attempted assault with intent to rob while armed and was subsequently sentenced to a term of 1 to 2½ years in prison. Defendant now appeals as of right from that conviction, seeking peremptory reversal of his conviction on the basis that he was convicted of a nonexistent crime.

On April 29, 1986, at about 10:30 p.m., Yemi Akintunde was working at Church’s Chicken on Gratiot in the City of Detroit. A man, whom she later identified…