State v. Bridgeman

On May 19, 1975, Harold J. Franks, a money order salesman, was attacked by two young men as he left the Fairmount Cut Rate Store on Fairhill Avenue in Cleveland, carrying a briefcase containing cash and money orders. One of the assailants threw acid in his face and struck him over the head, knocking him to the ground. When he still refused to release his briefcase, the second assailant shot him twice in the chest at close range. When Mrs. Anna Robinson, an owner of the Cut Rate Store, looked out at the scene through the glass door of the store and knocked on the glass, the gunman fired at…