Pruitt v. State

299 S.W.2d 148 (1957)

Benjamin Henry PRUITT, Appellant,

v.

The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 28733.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

February 27, 1957.

Joe Shannon, Fort Worth, for appellant.

Howard M. Fender, Criminal Dist. Atty., H. Edward Johnson, and Conard Florence, Asst. Criminal Dist. Attys., Fort Worth, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

DICE, Commissioner.

The offense is robbery; the punishment, five years.

The evidence is undisputed that on the night of January 1, 1956, Charles Thomas, a night watchman for the Steele Lumber Company in the City of Fort Worth, was…