Jackson v. State

The appellant, Cornelius Jackson, was convicted of robbery in the first degree, a violation of § 13A-8-41, Code of Alabama 1975. He was sentenced to 35 years in prison.

The state's evidence tended to show that on July 11, 1991, Archie Wright was robbed while he was in his house in Bessemer, Alabama. Wright testified that he was resting on a cot in the front room of his house and that the door was open and the screen door was latched with a piece of wire when the appellant burst into the room with a gun and said, "Old man, give me that money." The appellant then tied Wright up, placed a rag in…