Goodgame v. State

BOWEN, Judge.

Hoover Leverne Goodgame, the appellant, was convicted of robbery in the first degree and was sentenced to life imprisonment as a habitual felony offender. He raises two issues on this appeal from that conviction.

I

The appellant contends that the State failed to prove the elements of first degree robbery because the State failed to show that he was armed with a “deadly weapon or dangerous instrument.” Actually, the appellant’s argument is that the knife he used was not a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument.

The evidence shows that the appellant and Melvin Harris committed a…