Commonwealth v. Douglas

OPINION OF THE COURT BY JUSTICE CUNNINGHAM

On February 24, 2005, Appellant, Johnnie Ray Douglas, robbed a Check Advance store in Louisville, Kentucky, at gunpoint. He left the clerk handcuffed to a pipe. On June 25, 2005, Douglas robbed $2,700 cash from Cash Tyme at gunpoint. This was another check-cashing business just up the road from his prior robbery. His unidentified accomplice left two Cash Tyme employees tied up in a back room. The victims and other eyewitnesses identified Douglas as one of the robbers.

*798On August 4, 2005, a Jefferson County grand jury indicted Douglas on multiple counts…