Pace v. State

MERRILL, Justice.

Appellant was sentenced to thirty years in the penitentiary following his conviction for robbery. His motion for a new trial was overruled.

Appellant was charged with robbery of an A & P grocery store in Scottsboro. The undisputed evidence shows that appellant, armed with a shotgun, and another, armed with a pistol, entered the store on July 2, 1968 and forced an employee to give them about $550.00 and left with it in a brown sack. Several employees and customers identified appellant as being the man with the shotgun. Several witnesses testified that the robbers left in a…