Corey v. State

McMurray, Presiding Judge.

Defendant Corey appeals his conviction of two counts of armed robbery, two counts of possession of a firearm during commission of a crime, and criminal use of a weapon with an altered identification number. These offenses arose in connection with the armed robberies of two convenience stores and the counts related to each robbery were severed for separate trials.

An earlier untimely appeal was dismissed and this out-of-time appeal was subsequently allowed. The robberies occurred on November 12 and 18, 1990, and the trials were held on January 28-29 and February 19,…