Raymond O'Brien Rogers walked into a Hamilton Parish grocery store, held up the female cashier with a knife and made off with a handful of fifty and twenty dollar notes, a Supreme Court jury heard yesterday.

But the cashier at the North Shore store was able to pick him out of a Police identification line-up even though he was wearing a disguise at the time of the alleged incident.

Rogers, 43, of Cottage Hill, Hamilton Parish, denied being armed with a knife and robbing the Empire Grocery cashier of more then $70 on April 7 this year.

Deborah Thompson, the cashier, testified yesterday. She said that she was in the Hamilton Parish store around 2:30 p.m. when it was robbed.

She said that she was standing behind the cash register when a gentleman came in and walked to the back of the store.

"I looked up at the camera to see what he was doing,'' she recalled. "He was standing beside the dog food that we have on the back shelf. He stayed there for a few seconds, picked up a tin of Alpo dog food and walked up to the cash register.'' She said that Rogers paid $0.94 cents for the dog food and left. A few seconds later she said he walked quickly back into the store and she "thought nothing of it'' because people often came back in when they forgot an item.

"He came right up to me and pushed me...that is when I noticed the knife on my left side. The knife was small, not really long, with little ridges on the front part.

"...he kept telling me to open the drawer and I told him this cannot be happening. This is not right.'' Thompson said that Rogers demanded that she open the drawer and he ordered her to be quiet.

She then pushed the "no cash'' function on the cash register and the drawer opened.

Rogers, she said, then reached in and grabbed mostly "twenties and fifties.'' At that time she said Rogers was wearing a crash helmet, shades and a light wind breaker. But she could see the outline of his face and his beard and side burns.

Later in an identification parade at the Bermuda Police Recreation club, the court heard that Thompson picked Rogers out of a group of ten men.

The case continues this morning before Chief Justice Austin Ward. Mark Pettingill represents the accused, Melvin Douglas appears on behalf of the Crown.