Cook v. State

Benham, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of the armed robbery of a Glynn County restaurant. On appeal he enumerates as error the denial of his motion for mistrial and the content of the trial court’s jury charge on alibi.

1. Two of the four people who identified appellant as the armed, unmasked perpetrator of the robbery testified that, at the request of the district attorney, they had sat in the courtroom during the two-hour voir dire and had picked out appellant as the robber as he walked into the courtroom. While one of these witnesses had previously perused several volumes of mugshots and had…