Clements v. State

The appellant, Jerry Wayne Clements, was convicted of robbery in the first degree, in violation of § 13A-8-41, Code of Alabama 1975, and was sentenced as a habitual offender to life imprisonment. Four issues are raised on appeal.

The evidence presented by the State tended to establish that on the afternoon of June 24, 1986, the Citco Service Station on Bell Street in Montgomery was robbed by a lone gunman. That afternoon, Mary Jordan and Rebecca Calvin, employees of the service station, were on duty. Mary Jordan was stocking the coolers when a man, later identified as the appellant, entered…