People v. Comer

This is an appeal from an order of conviction entered by the circuit court of Rock Island County after jury trial finding the defendant, Marcus Comer, guilty of armed robbery under an accountability theory.

On January 6, 1978, at 1:30 a.m., two black males entered Jacob’s Super Valu Grocery Store in Milan, Illinois. One, Reginald Pendleton, was wearing an orange coat and a blue hat and had an afro haircut; the other, the defendant, wore a dark coat and glasses and had a moustache and braided hair.

Defendant chose eight apples and then he and Pendleton went to the register to pay for them.…