Black v. State

The appellant, Paul Earl Black, was convicted of robbery in the first degree and assault in the first degree. Pursuant to Alabama's Habitual Felony Offender Act, he was sentenced to life imprisonment and to life imprisonment without parole, the two sentences to be served concurrently. He raises five issues on this appeal.

In the early morning hours of January 16, 1992, Joey McKinney, an employee of a Texaco gasoline station in Dothan, Alabama, was ringing up the sale of two Sunkist sodas, two bags of potato chips, and a pack of cigarettes, for two men. He looked up from making change and saw…