Houston v. State

WALLACE, Circuit Judge.

Defendant appeals from a conviction for robbery with a sentence of ten years imprisonment.

I

The State’s evidence is to the effect that around 6:30 P.M., August 17, 1971, Willie F. Watson, while on duty as manager of Watson’s Apothecary in Mobile, Alabama, was robbed at gunpoint of approximately $111.00. The apothecary was well lighted with four rows of double eight-foot flu orescent lights. The person committing the robbery was in the immediate presence of Mr. Watson, being as close as two feet, “or closer”, for five or six minutes and was engaged in brief conversation…