Mack v. State

PATTERSON, Presiding Judge.

The appellant was convicted after a jury trial of robbery in the first degree, in violation of § 13A-8-41, Code of Alabama 1975, and was sentenced as a habitual offender to 99 years’ imprisonment. At trial, the state’s evidence tended to show that the appellant robbed the victim at knife-point; that the victim shot the appellant as he fled; and that the appellant was found bleeding a short distance from the scene of the crime.

As one of his four issues, the appellant argues that the trial court’s oral charge regarding reasonable doubt violated the principle of Cage…