Ellis v. State

BOOKOUT, Judge.

Robbery; sentence: ten years imprisonment.

*49At about 7:45 P.M. on December 9, 1975, four men entered a Majik Mart in Birmingham. Mrs. Lillie Prather, the store cashier, testified that one of them reached across the counter and flipped the quarters from the cash register out over the floor, while one of the others went behind the counter, grabbed her around the neck and forced her into the back room of the store. Mrs. Prather was unable to positively identify the appellant as one of the four. However, two plain clothes policemen, H. L. Snow and John Wayne DeLoach, who were outside…