Commonwealth v. Seminara

Upon jury verdicts, the defendants were convicted of armed robbery of a pharmacy — Seminara as the holdup man and Haynes as the driver of the get-away car. There was evidence enabling the jury to find as follows.

On August 18, 1983, a man approached a clerk, Cindy Houghtling, said softly to her, “This is a holdup,” and pointed to a gun handle protruding from his belt or the waistband of his dungarees. Houghtling bent down behind the counter, as she was told by the robber. She heard the sound of money being taken from the cash register, and when she heard the man run out she got up and was able…