Hooper v. State

GIVAN, Chief Justice.

Appellant was charged by way of a one count information with Robbery as a Class A felony. He was tried before a jury and found guilty as charged. He was sentenced to a thirty year term of imprisonment.

The facts are these. On September 3, 1980, one Martha Gray, owner of the Plas ter Craft Shop in Lake Station, opened her shop as was customary at about 10:00 A.M. About fifteen or twenty minutes later a man whom Mrs. Gray positively identified as appellant came into the shop ostensibly to buy a birthday gift for his daughter. He and Mrs. Gray engaged in an extensive…