Commonwealth v. Williams

LOWE, P.J.,

This appeal stems from a March 24, 1978 robbery of the S. S. Kresge Store in the Cheltenham Shopping Center. On that Friday afternoon between 4:00 and 4:30 Bernadine Vaughn was in the course of her employment as a cashier at this store. A man in line at Ms. Vaughn’s check-out counter approached her as she finished helping a customer and told her to lift up the tray in *733the cash drawer of her register.1 Ms. Vaughn immediately closed the register. The unknown man then opened his jacket and displayed a handgun contained in a shoulder holster. He repeated his order for her to lift the…