Tice v. State

Appellants, Jack Tice and Donny Ray Sullivan, were separately indicted for the offense of robbery in the first degree. The indictments were consolidated for trial pursuant to A.R.Crim.P.Temp. 15.4 (b). A jury found both defendants guilty as charged. Sullivan was sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment while Tice was sentenced to life imprisonment as an habitual offender.

The indictments arose out of the March 7, 1982, robbery of the Montgomery Civic Center in which coins valued at more than three-and-a-half million dollars were stolen. After midnight on March 7, two men gained entry into the…