Bell v. State

Hall, Justice.

Bell appeals from his conviction and life sentence for the July 5, 1972 armed robbery of Joyce Berry, an attendant in a convenience store on Riverdale Road in Clayton County, Georgia. The robber escaped with $812.12. Approximately an hour later, Bell was apprehended by police in the course of robbing another convenience store, this one on Allison Court in Atlanta, Georgia. Bell was apprehended before obtaining any money from the Allison Court robbery, but his automobile was found to contain a large amount of cash. Subsequently, the Riverdale Road victims positively identified…