Welch v. State

LEIGH M. CLARK, Retired Circuit Judge.

A jury found defendant-appellant guilty of robbery and the court fixed his punishment at imprisonment for thirty years in the penitentiary and sentenced him accordingly.

The undisputed evidence shows that on April 14, 1979, at approximately 7:00 P.M., defendant robbed Charles Módica, the owner of the G. & D. Food Center in Bessemer, at the point of a gun. He caused the victim to empty the cash register and deliver approximately $700.00 taken therefrom to defendant. It appears also that two other men were robbing other attendants at the store about the same…