State v. Pittman

SMITH, Presiding Judge.

Defendant appeals from his conviction by a jury of two counts of armed robbery and the resulting sentences of fifteen years on each count, to be served consecutively. Defendant raises as error the failure of the trial court to declare a mistrial as a result of the alleged cumulative prejudicial effect of the prosecutor’s argument, and the consecutive sentences imposed. No attack is made on the sufficiency of the evidence.

The evidence indicated that Defendant and another man, Clarence Millett, robbed at gunpoint the owner of a used car lot and a business guest of the…