Pickett v. State

TYSON, Judge.

Joe Ranger Pickett was indicted for robbery in the first degree in violation of § 13A-8-41, Code of Alabama 1975. The jury found the appellant “guilty as charged in the indictment” and the trial court sentenced him to 99 years’ imprisonment as a habitual felony offender.

Elvin Frazier testified that on the morning of February 5, 1985, the appellant was at his house in Brundidge, Alabama visiting Darrell Struggs, who lived with Frazier. Around 11:00 a.m., Struggs asked Frazier if he could borrow his 1980 reddish-orange Chevrolet Monza. Frazier agreed and Struggs and the appellant…