Cooper v. State

Richard B. Adkisson, Chief Justice.

After a trial by jury, appellant, John Paul Cooper, was convicted of aggravated robbery and sentenced as a habitual offender to 40 years in the Arkansas Department of Correction. On appeal appellant alleges the evidence is insufficient to support his conviction.

Testimony at trial revealed that Mr. Bill Cheatham, part owner of the Wilson-Bearden Drug Store in Magnolia, Arkansas, was robbed on January 25, 1980. Cheatham testified that he opened his store at 7:30 a.m. and that shortly thereafter two black males entered the store and began looking at sunglasses.…