State v. Melvin

HILL, Judge.

The State’s evidence tends to show that on 14 November 1980, defendant was tending bar at Ronnie Parker’s Pool Hall when a fight broke out between Linda Gail McNeil and co-defendant Ruth Parker. Willie Leon Frederick attempted to end the fight by placing McNeil in his car, but co-defendants James Jarvis Finch and Ronnie Parker and defendant began fighting with Frederick. During that fight, Frederick testified, defendant “grabbed me right at my backpocket and snatched my pocketbook out, so I knowed it was him, I was looking at him.” However, he also testified that Ronnie Parker…