Johnson v. State

Eldridge, Judge.

Appellant Jason Wayne Johnson and his cousin, Jerry Lee Lancaster, committed a home invasion wherein they donned Halloween masks, approached the home of the 70-year-old victim (their longtime neighbor), kicked in her front door, held a knife to her throat, took her purse, forced her into her kitchen, and took the money she had saved and hidden under a cereal box in her bottom kitchen cabinet. A Forsyth County jury found Johnson guilty of armed robbery, burglary, kidnapping with bodily injury, simple battery, false imprisonment, and possession of a knife during the commission…