Cunningham v. State

The appellant, Ellis Alexander Cunningham, was convicted of first degree robbery, a violation of § 13A-8-41, Code of Alabama 1975. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison.

The state's evidence tended to show that at 11:00 p.m. on the evening of December 11, 1992, Pamela Danzey, assistant manager at a seafood restaurant in Dothan, was robbed while making a night deposit at AmSouth bank. While Danzey was at the night deposit box, a man approached her from behind, put a knife to her back, and demanded the money. She turned and saw that he had on a black ski-type mask and blue pants. He was holding…