Court Opinion

ID: 9593740
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 00:24:33.515218+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:01:22.068652
License: Public Domain

PARKS, Judge,
specially concurring:
Although I agree in the affirmance of appellant’s conviction, I write separately to comment on appellant’s second assignment of error. Appellant claims that conflicting instructions were given to the jury. Particularly, he urges that the instructions given to the jury allowed him to be convicted of a crime not charged. In support of his claim, he points out that one instruction read as follows:
You are further instructed that the laws of the State of Oklahoma provide, with specific regard to the charge involved in this case, as follows:
Any person or persons who, with the use of any firearms or any other dangerous weapons, whether the firearm is loaded or not, or who uses a blank or imitation firearm capable of raising in the mind of the one threatened with such device a fear that it is a real firearm, attempts to rob or robs any person or persons, or who robs or attempts to rob any place of business, residence or banking institution or any other place unhabited or attended by any person or persons at any time, either day or night, shall be guilty of Robbery with Firearms. (Emphasis Added)
Appellant argues that the highlighted language allowed him to be convicted attempted robbery or robbery of a residence. However, I note that the instruction was a direct quote of 21 O.S.Supp.1982, § 801. In fact, only the last sentence varies from language used in Section 801. In addition to this instruction, the jury was given instructions as to the necessary elements of the charged crime. These instructions conformed to the evidence presented at trial. After a review of the instructions for fundamental error, I concur in the affirmance of appellant’s conviction.