State v. Grant

CLEMENS, Senior Judge.

By indictment the state charged defendant Tony Grant with armed robbery and armed criminal action. The jury found defendant dually guilty and the court sentenced him to concurrent 10 and 3 year terms in prison.

The state’s evidence: As the young victim was headed home from school an armed man accosted him at gunpoint and forced him to go to the basement of defendant’s home. There defendant pointed a gun at the victim and while the other armed man pointed a gun at the victim the defendant forcibly took off his jacket. The victim ran to a telephone and called the police.…