Opinion ID: 2463714
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Text: Bank employees Clifton Thompson and Bernice Wisdom positively identified Dillingham as the man who robbed the Edmonton State Bank. Further, a customer testified that he saw Dillingham in the bank just prior to the robbery. Next, while no witness testified that he or she saw a weapon, there was sufficient evidence adduced at trial to convict Dillingham of first-degree robbery. Reference to a deadly weapon coupled with a contemporaneous demand for money or other valuables is sufficient to withstand a motion for directed verdict of acquittal on a charge of first-degree robbery. Swain v. Commonwealth, Ky., 887 S.W.2d 346, 348 (1994). Dillingham handed Thompson a note that stated, This is a robbery. Don't push any buttons or call the police. Thompson testified that Dillingham told him that he had a gun. Moreover, Dillingham kept his right hand in his pocket at all times as if the pocket contained a gun. There was no error.