Harris v. State

CATES, Judge.

Indictment, robbery; verdict, guilty; sentence, fifteen years in the penitentiary. This is a companion case to Bowman v. State, ante p. 331,208 So.2d 241 (1968).

The State’s proof tended thus: December 6, 1966, Harris and others drove up to a store in Eufaula. Harris and Bowman walked in and after picking out some merchandise pulled a pistol on the clerk in charge, Gerald Bennett, and ordered him into a cooler. The cash register was left open.

Two minutes later a juvenile customer came in the store. Bennett seemingly concluded that the defendant had gone. When Bennett came out,…