Evans v. State

Bryant Evans was convicted of four counts of first-degree robbery. The majority affirms the convictions; I respectfully dissent because the State did not present a prima facie case of first-degree robbery for any of the four counts.

The majority has accurately summarized the evidence presented by the State. The proprietor of the barbershop where the incident occurred, Michael Rutledge, testified that he knew Evans because Evans had sold him magazines on several occa*773sions and because Evans had been a barbershop customer in the past. On the morning of this incident, Rutledge saw a man who was…