Ivey v. State

Judge Harold R. Banke.

Jermaine Ivey was tried for two counts of aggravated assault and one count of armed robbery. He was acquitted on the aggravated assault charges. Enumerating two errors, Ivey appeals his conviction for armed robbery.

The underlying case arose after the victim and his friend decided to wash the victim’s car on their way out of town for the Fourth of *380July holiday. While the victim was washing his 1996 white Pontiac Grand Prix inside a carwash bay on Covington Highway, a vehicle with four black males pulled into the adjacent bay. His friend became uneasy after “they looked at…