State v. Rankins

HUNTER, Judge.

At trial, the State’s evidence tended to show that at 2:30 p.m. on 14 March 1997, two men wearing ski masks entered the Royalty Finance (“Royalty”) office in Edenton, North Carolina. One of the men was carrying a revolver. They told the people in the office to get on the floor and took approximately $1,400.00 from one of the front cash registers. No one in the office could identify either of the two men.

Bishop Ali, who runs BJ’s Coffee Shop two doors down from Royalty, testified he observed two men pacing in front of his shop between 2:00 and 2:30 p.m. on the day in question.…