Jackson v. State

Bobby Lee Jackson was convicted for first degree robbery and second degree burglary. He was given concurrent sentences of twenty years' imprisonment for the robbery and ten years for the burglary. Three issues are raised by Jackson's appointed counsel on this appeal from those convictions.

I

On the night of May 8, 1985, Clarence Sylvie, the manager of McDonald's on Madison Avenue in Montgomery, was robbed. Sylvie could not identify the masked robbers. Michael Medlock testified that he and Jackson committed the robbery in order to get money to pay for Jackson's car. Without detailing all the…