Merriweather v. State

A jury found appellant-defendant guilty of robbery and fixed his punishment at imprisonment for ten years. He was sentenced accordingly.

The undisputed evidence is that defendant was one of two stocking-masked men who, at about 10:00 P.M. on the night of March 22, 1976, robbed Verna Bradley, then in charge of the C C Pit Barbecue in Tuscaloosa, and took from the cash register approximately forty dollars and from under a counter a revolver. In accomplishing the robbery, one of the men was armed with a pistol and the other with a sawed-off twenty-two rifle.

The only eyewitness identifying…