Penn v. State

Jack Holt, Jr., Chief Justice.

The appellants, Ronald Penn and Toby Tia Ellis, were convicted of two counts of aggravated robbery and two counts of first-degree battery perpetrated against Garcia Horace and Dwayne Dolphus, for which Ellis was sentenced to a forty-year cumulative term of imprisonment, and Penn a thirty-year cumulative term. Although their arguments vary on appeal, both Penn and Ellis assert that the trial court erred in refusing to grant their motions for directed verdict. We affirm, as neither appellant properly presented or preserved the issues at trial which he now attempts…