Carter v. State

Birdsong, Presiding Judge.

Charlie Carter was convicted of two counts of robbery by force, arising out of separate incidents on August 16 and August 18, 1989. In each incident, an elderly man looking for or purchasing a load of watermelons at the Cordele State Farmers’ Market was accosted and robbed by a person who assisted or offered to assist the victim in finding or loading the watermelons. In the August 16 incident, the robber went with the victim, Tillman, in Tillman’s truck, ostensibly to show him a patch of large watermelons on a farm nearby; instead, the robber assaulted Tillman and…