Hicks v. Commonwealth

Australia Hicks appeals from a judgment entered on a jury verdict finding him guilty of first-degree robbery and fixing his punishment at ten years’ imprisonment.

Hicks is a rather well-known female impersonator. He apparently plied the trade of enticing people, his customers, to engage in sexual misconduct with him. On August 16, 1975, he agreed to engage in a sexual act with Curtis Trent and in furtherance of that act took him to a room over the Soul Lounge. An argument developed over an increase in the amount Trent was to pay, and Trent, becoming apprehensive of the intentions of Hicks,…