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- Title: Donald Pauls v. State Delaware
- Author : Supreme Court of Delaware
- Release Date : January 09, 1984
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 57 KB
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At 11:45 p.m. on January 19, 1983, Marian Hearn, a clerk in a convenience store in Seaford, was scrubbing the floor. Appellant entered the store and lingered by the soda cooler. Ms. Hearn and appellant were the only people in the store at this time. Suddenly, appellant approached Ms. Hearn brandishing a broken glass bottle. Ms. Hearn was afraid that she would be slashed and reached for the broken bottle. As she grabbed it, a piece of glass broke off into her hand. At this point appellant pulled out a stick and struck Ms. Hearn in the head. Ms. Hearn then activated a silent alarm button and ordered appellant to leave the store while he could. Disregarding the order, appellant hit her again with the stick and kicked her in her stomach. Ms. Hearn then fled out the front of the store. Appellant followed her outside and kicked her again. Ms. Hearn ran back inside the store hoping to lock appellant out. She was unsuccessful, and appellant, came back into the store holding the stick and demanding that she give him the store receipts. She opened the cash registers and he emptied them. He then struck her in the head with the stick with enough force to break the stick in half. As appellant ran out the front door he was apprehended by the Seaford police who had responded to the silent alarm. A Superior Court jury found appellant guilty of robbery in the first degree, assault in the first degree and burglary in the second degree. In addition, the jury returned guilty verdicts on one count of possession of a deadly weapon by a person prohibited from possessing such a weapon (11 Del.C. § 1448) and six counts of possession of a deadly weapon during the commission of a felony.(11 Del.C. § 1447 (a)). Three of the latter counts arose from his possession of the stick and three from the possession of the broken bottle during the robbery, assault and burglary offenses.