Mitchell v. State

Hill, Justice.

Melvin Jerome Mitchell was tried and convicted of armed robbery and two misdemeanor pistol counts. He was sentenced to twenty years for armed robbery and twelve months on the pistol convictions to run concurrently. He appeals.

At trial the state presented evidence that the manager of a restaurant arrived at work a little after 8:00 a.m. on February 28,1975, with his wife and two-year-old child. A few minutes later the bread man arrived with the day’s order. The defendant and Mike McAllister, an employee of the restaurant, came in with the bread man. McAllister told the manager…