State v. Edwards

OPINION

BEVILACQUA, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction entered after a jury trial in the Superior Court. The jury returned guilty verdicts on two counts under indictment No. W2/82-147: one count of robbery in violation of G.L.1956 (1981 Reenactment) § 11-39-1, and one count of malicious damage to property in violation of § 11-44-1. As to counts 2 and 3, assaulting a police officer in violation of § 11-5-5, the defendant was acquitted. On appeal the defendant assigns as error certain evidentiary and other rulings.

The record discloses the following facts. The…