Smith v. State

The appellant, Christopher Dejuan Smith, was convicted of two counts of first-degree robbery, a violation of § 13A-8-41(a)(1), Ala. Code 1975.1 The trial court sentenced him to serve concurrent terms of twenty years in prison on each conviction, but split the sentences and ordered him to serve five years in prison followed by five years on unsupervised probation. The appellant filed a motion for a new trial, which the trial court denied. This appeal followed.

The State presented evidence that, on December 16, 2002, the appellant and a taller black male entered the business of Fives Automotive…