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A White County jury found Paul F. Mitchell, III guilty of armed robbery, three counts of kidnapping, and three counts of false imprisonment.1 Mitchell complains of prosecutorial misconduct, ineffective assistance of counsel, and an erroneous jury charge. He also claims that the verdict is contrary to and against the weight of the evidence. After review, we affirm.

The evidence, when viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict, established that several days before Thanksgiving in 1997, the Leggs-Hanes-Bali factory outlet store in Helen, Georgia, was robbed by a lone man purportedly armed with a bomb-like device that was strapped inside his bulky coat. After directing an employee to empty a register, the perpetrator fled with the money, leaving three female employees tied up inside a rear storage room. The victims described the perpetrator as an older white male with “scraggly looking gray hair” and a predominately gray beard, who was wearing glasses, a burgundy-colored beret or tam type hat, a gray bulky jacket, and a scarf. Based on their collective descriptions, a sketch artist drew a composite. In a dumpster behind the store, police found a gray parka, beret, glasses, and scarf. Dark green rope like that used to bind one victim was found in the lower left pocket of the gray parka.

 
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