DeLoach v. State

BOOKOUT, Judge.

Robbery; sentence: ten years imprisonment. •

Around 8:55 P.M. on April 29, 1975, two men entered a convenience store in Birmingham operated by Percy Dalton Coker. One of the men, later identified by Coker as the appellant, placed a .410 gauge shotgun on the counter and ordered Coker to give him the money in the cash register. After handing over the money, Coker was forced to lie on the floor while the robbers fled. Coker called the Birmingham police, and Officer James Rhodes was dispatched to the store and took down Coker’s description of the assailants. Ten days later, Coker…