State v. Branch

DURHAM, Justice:

A jury convicted defendant Paul Anthony Branch of theft, aggravated robbery, and aggravated assault. The judge who supervised defendant’s jury trial subsequently convicted defendant of being a habitual criminal.

Defendant challenges the admission of testimony from several eyewitnesses; the judge’s refusal to give a cautionary instruction concerning the eyewitness testimony; the sufficiency of the evidence; the judge’s application of the habitual criminal statute; the conviction for aggravated robbery as well as aggravated assault and theft, which defendant claims are lesser…