Dodson v. State

Hill, Justice.

Donnie Wayne Dodson appeals from an armed robbery conviction and fifteen year sentence imposed by the Gordon Superior Court.

The evidence presented at trial authorized the jury to find that the defendant and his brother, who resembles the defendant, drove into a service station in Gordon County in a white van on September 24, 1975. While the owner’s wife was putting gas in the van, the defendant forced the owner at gunpoint to put $125 and the owner’s .38 caliber pistol in a brown bag. As the two men fled in their van the wife noted the license tag number. The robbery was…