Case ID: mich-app_21/html/0094-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

PEOPLE v. WEIGHT
    Bobbery — Armed Bobbery — Evidence—Stifficienct.
    Testimony by the complaining witness that he was robbed by defendant at knifepoint was sufficient evidence, if believed by the jury, to support its verdict of guilty of armed robbery.
    Reference for Points in Headnote
    46 Am Jur, Bobbery §§ 50-54.
    Appeal from Recorder’s Court of Detroit, Elvin L. Davenport, J.
    Submitted Division 1 January 14, 1970, at Detroit.
    (Docket No. 4,055.)
    Decided January 26, 1970.
    William Wright was convicted by a jury of armed robbery. Defendant appeals.
    Affirmed.
    
      Franlc J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoslci, Solicitor General, William L. Cabalan, Prosecuting Attorney, Samuel J. Torina, Chief Appellate Lawyer, and Robert A. Reuther, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.
    
      Goodman, Eden, Robb, Millender, Goodman & Bedrosian (Donald L. Hobson, of counsel), for defendant on appeal.
    Before: Danhop, P. J., and Fitzgerald and Mc-Gregor, JJ.
   Per Curiam.

Defendant William Wright and a co-defendant, Jonas Powell, were arrested and charged with robbery armed, contrary to MOLA § 750.529 (Stat Ann 1969 Cum Supp § 28.797), following the robbery of a taxicab driver in the men’s restroom of a service station in February, 1967. Both defendants were found guilty after jury trial in recorder’s court for the city of Detroit. Defendant Wright was sentenced to from four to ten years in prison and has appealed.

Defendant questions the sufficiency of the evidence offered by the people in support of the jury’s verdict of guilty. An examination of the record on appeal indicates that the evidence was such that, if believed, a jury might find the defendant guilty as charged.

The testimony of the complaining witness as to the use of a dangerous weapon, a knife, was sufficient under the holding of this Court in People v. Boxx (1969), 16 Mich App 724.

The finding of the jury is affirmed.