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IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF IOWA No. 8-907 / 07-1450 Filed December 31, 2008

STATE OF IOWA, Plaintiff-Appellee, vs. RAMON LAMONT PRICE, Defendant-Appellant. ________________________________________________________________

Appeal from the Iowa District Court for Polk County, Joel D. Novak, Judge.

Price

appeals

from

his

first-degree

and

second-degree

robbery

convictions. AFFIRMED IN PART; SENTENCE VACATED IN PART.

Mark C. Smith, State Appellate Defender, and David Adams, Assistant Appellate Defender, for appellant. Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, Thomas S. Tauber, Assistant Attorney General, John P. Sarcone, County Attorney, and, Michael Hunter, Assistant County Attorney, for appellee.

Considered by Vogel, P.J., and Mahan and Miller, JJ.

2 VOGEL, P.J. Ramon Price appeals from his convictions of one count of first-degree robbery in violation of Iowa Code sections 711.1 and 711.2 (2005) and two counts of second-degree robbery in violation of Iowa Code sections 711.1 and 711.3. Our review is for corrections of errors at law. Iowa R. App. P. 6.4. Price challenges the sufficiency of the evidence as to his first-degree robbery conviction arguing the State had failed to prove the two and one-eight inch pocket knife he was armed with was a dangerous weapon. "A person

commits robbery in the first degree when, while perpetrating a robbery, the person purposely inflicts or attempts to inflict serious injury, or is armed with a dangerous weapon." Iowa Code

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