Pearson v. State

Birdsong, Judge.

Charles W. Pearson was convicted of the armed robbery of a gas station-convenience store. The store manager at about 8:00 a.m. observed a certain vehicle drive slowly through the station lot and then leave; she wrote the vehicle’s tag number down as TDH-960 because she considered the circumstances suspicious. At 3:00 p.m., the same individual she had earlier seen, driving the same car, drove into the lot, came into the store and robbed her at gunpoint. As the robber left, the store manager saw that the front plate of the car read “1980 Heisman Trophy Award.” She saw the rear…