Shackelford v. State

Birdsong, Presiding Judge.

The defendant, Randolph Shackelford, was indicted for the offense of robbery and two counts of aggravated assault. Although he entered a plea of not guilty, the jury found him guilty of the robbery and the lesser included offenses of simple assault in the remaining two counts.

Carolyn Ramsey withdrew $50 in cash from the automated teller at the C&S Bank on Moreland Avenue at Little Five Points in DeKalb County late in the afternoon of July 15,1985. After she withdrew the cash, a nearby man grabbed her wrist and attempted to take her money. She refused to let go and…