State v. Willis

MARTIN, Judge.

Defendant appeals from a judgment entered upon his conviction by a jury of common law robbery and his plea of guilty to being an habitual felon. Briefly summarized, the evidence admitted at trial tended to show that on 13 October 1997, Michael Odell Stone, a district manager for a convenience store chain, was accosted in the parking lot as he was leaving one of the chain’s stores on Martin Luther King Boulevard in Winston-Salem. Stone was carrying deposit bags containing the store receipts. As Stone put the bags in his car, the man sprayed Stone in the face with pepper spray.…