Riley v. State

Steele Hays, Justice.

On January 11, 1984, the Chief Gas Station in Pine Bluff was robbed by three men using a sawed-off shotgun. A few days later two men wearing ski masks and using a sawed-off shotgun robbed the Riverside Motel. A description of the car used in the robbery was broadcast by police radio and appellant Gary Jerome Riley and a companion were promptly arrested. They had ski masks and a sawed-off shotgun in their possession.

Appellant pled guilty to the aggravated robbery of the motel and was tried and convicted for the gas station robbery. As a habitual offender he was sentenced…