Richburg v. State

LEIGH M. CLARK, Retired Circuit Judge.

A jury found appellant guilty of robbery in the first degree of Thomas J. Wilson. The court fixed his punishment at imprisonment for seventeen years and sentenced him accordingly.

According to the testimony of the alleged victim, a farmer, he was in the Ensley area of Birmingham on May 23, 1980, selling vegetables and meat from a pickup truck with a camper on it. While he was in the vicinity of Avenue G and Thirteenth Street, two men whom he had not previously known, talked with him in concert about buying some of his produce. One was the defendant. The…