Chester v. State

Deen, Presiding Judge.

Rodney Chester was charged with armed robbery of two employees of a Rome, Georgia, motel. Both victims positively identified Chester from a photographic array, as well as in court, as one of the persons who had robbed them at gunpoint. The other evidence presented at trial strongly supported the charges. Chester’s *855sole defense was alibi, concerning which the evidence adduced by the defense was inconclusive, at best.

Decided February 15, 1984.

A Floyd County jury found Chester guilty, and as a habitual offender he received the maximum penalty of life imprisonment on each…