Buchannon v. State

The appellant, Willie Albert Buchannon, was convicted of robbery in the first degree and was sentenced as a habitual offender to life imprisonment. He raises two issues on appeal.

I

The appellant claims that the evidence was insufficient to sustain a conviction for first degree robbery because, he says, the State failed to prove that he "[t]hreaten[ed] the imminent use of force . . . with intent to compel acquiescence to the taking of or escaping with the property." Ala. Code 1975, §13A-8-43(a)(2).

Wal-Mart discount store security officer Albert Dorn testified that he saw the appellant remove…