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Robinson v. State

The evidence was sufficient to prove that the defendant was a party to the crime of attempted robbery and that his actions were a proximate cause of his accomplice's death during that attempted robbery.

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Following a jury trial, Anthony Threatt Robinson appeals his convictions for felony murder predicated on criminal attempt to commit armed robbery, fleeing and attempting to elude a police officer, obstruction of a police officer, and making false statements. Robinson contends that the evidence was insufficient to support the verdicts, that the trial court made numerous errors regarding evidence and jury instructions, and that trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance.1 For the reasons set forth below, we affirm.

1. Viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict, the record shows that Robinson and Benjamin Carter had been close friends for many years. On September 25, 2012, an individual, later identified as Carter from surveillance footage, entered the Coastal Gold Exchange CGE, a business that bought precious metals. Carter pulled a gun on a CGE employee, Jimmie Skelton, and stole approximately $2,000. No one was ever arrested for this robbery, but there was evidence that Robinson and Carter used their cell phones in the vicinity of CGE around the time that the robbery occurred. In addition, on September 27, 2012, Dionne Polite Brown, an acquaintance of Robinson and Carter, heard Robinson tell Carter and others that he and Carter had a good lick or a sweet lick, apparently a reference to the September 25th robbery.2

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