Bray v. State, 6 Div. 100
| Decision Date | 29 June 1971 |
| Docket Number | 6 Div. 100 |
| Citation | 253 So.2d 531,47 Ala.App. 308 |
| Parties | Roy Edward BRAY, alias v. STATE. |
| Court | Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals |
Louis W. Scholl, Birmingham, for appellant.
MacDonald Gallion, Atty. Gen., and Joseph Victor Price, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction of robbery. The defendant was sentenced to fifty years imprisonment in the state penitentiary.
Frank Higginbotham testified for the state that in the early morning hours of Sunday, February 23, 1969, he was working as the night attendant at the Randolph Service Station, 501 South Fourteenth Street, Jefferson County, Alabama. He had allowed two black couples to use the station facilities to change a tire on their car, and as he was picking up tools and closing the bay doors, he heard the cash register open. Going into the office Mr. Higginbotham observed the defendant standing between the desk and the counter, back of the cash register, and he opened the drawer where a pistol was kept and noticed that the pistol was missing. Witness then turned around and noticed the defendant raising the pistol. They struggled for the gun and it went off, the bullet passing through the glass window. Mr. Higginbotham turned his back to accused and faced the closed cash register. He testified he heard defendant state, 'You have been so damned smart'--'I don't know the exact words' or, '--acted so damned smart, just give me the rest of the money out of the register.' Mr. Higginbotham then opened the cash register and gave him nine one dollar bills. The defendant walked toward the phone booth at the corner. He took, in all, $9.60 and the pistol. The defendant's coat was found in a chair at the station.
The defendant testified that he came to the station around midnight to see a friend who usually worked with Mr. Higginbotham, but on that night Mr. Higginbotham was alone. Mr. Higginbotham asked if he would stay with him and directed him behind the grease rack where he had a pile of whiskey. After taking a drink defendant removed his cost and hung it on the grease rack. Two black couples drove in and changed a tire in the bay. After they left witness and Mr. Higginbotham went back up front and a white man drove up and said he wanted to see Mr. Higginbotham. Mr. Higginbotham went inside the office, came out and went around the side of the station with this man, where they stayed for ten or fifteen minutes....
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