Rice v. State

Benham, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of four counts of armed robbery. On appeal he maintains that the trial court erred in admitting evidence of similar transactions and that he was not afforded his constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel.

1. Each of the four victims positively identified appellant as one of two men who entered a commercial establishment where the victim was, spent some time there, and then robbed the proprietor and customers at gunpoint. The man purported to be appellant’s accomplice appeared as a witness for the State and testified that he and appellant…