Griffin v. State

WIGGINTON, Chief Judge.

Appellants were charged by information in the Criminal Court of Record of Duval County with the offense of robbery. There is competent and substantial evidence, if believed by the jury, to establish that one of the appellants, in company with another defendant, entered the retail store of the victim at 10:45 at night and, upon leveling a sawed-off shotgun and pearl-handled pistol at the owner and others in the store, announced that “This is a holdup.” By holding the victims at bay across the business end of the shotgun and pistol, the cash register was rifled and the…