Bell v. State

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is robbery, as denounced by Articles 1559 and 1560, V.A.P.C., in that the robbery was alleged to have been committed in a foreign country and the fruits thereof brought into the State of Texas; the punishment, 5 years.

The laws of the State of Chihuahua were introduced in order to comply with the terms of Article 1560, supra.

Cantu, a 61-year-old Latin American railroad worker, took his savings in the form of fourteen one hundred dollar bills to Juarez, where he was to meet a friend for the purpose of purchasing a home in that city. Cantu arrived at the…