State v. Brown

OPINION

Chief Justice SUTTELL,

for the Court.

The issues in this appeal arise from an incident on August 14, 2004, that left a fourteen-year-old boy with a bleeding head and missing jewelry. A jury convicted the defendant, Leon “Boogie” Brown, of assaulting the young man with a dangerous weapon, as well as of assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest. The defendant raises three issues on appeal. First, the defendant argues that the trial justice should have granted his motion for judgment of acquittal because the evidence adduced at trial was not legally sufficient to sustain a conviction…