Fast v. State

This is an appeal by the defendant, Sidney Donald Fast, from a judgment and sentence following a jury trial and conviction of assault with intent to commit robbery.

The defendant contends that the evidence is insufficient to support the judgment. The defendant also contends that the trial judge erred in his charge to the jury on the defense of alibi and that remarks by the prosecuting attorney during summation constituted reversible error.

At approximately 1:15 P.M. on September 10, 1965 two men entered a Public Supermarket in North Miami Beach and proceeded to an office wherein the assistant…