Mitchell v. State

Phipps, Judge.

A White County jury found Paul F. Mitchell III guilty of armed robbery, three counts of kidnapping, and three counts of false imprisonment. Mitchell complains of prosecutorial misconduct, ineffective assistance of counsel, and an erroneous jury charge. He also claims that the verdict is contrary to and against the weight of the evidence. After review, we affirm.

The evidence, when viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict, established that several days before Thanksgiving in 1997, the Leggs-Hanes-Bali factory outlet store in Helen was robbed by a lone man purportedly…