Ragsdale v. State

Glenn J. Ragsdale was indicted for the second degree robbery of a Junior Foods Store, by taking some $42.00 from the person of one Linda Taylor, by use of a deadly weapon, a pistol, while in the company of Lawrence A. Grass, contrary to § 13A-8-42, Code of Alabama 1975. The jury found the appellant "guilty of robbery in the second degree" and following a sentencing hearing, the trial court fixed punishment at 10 years' imprisonment in the penitentiary.

Walter Crook stated he was Deputy Sheriff of Baldwin County on February 5, 1983, when he received a radio dispatch to investigate a robbery in…