Jordan v. State

OPINION

ROBERTS, Judge.

The appellant was convicted of robbery. Punishment was assessed by the jury at fifty years’ imprisonment.

Appellant’s first ground of error urges that the trial court failed to submit to the jury a sufficiently specific charge on alibi. Appellant’s mother and stepfather testified that appellant was at their home in Louisiana at the time the offense occurred. Appellant requested an instruction which specifically included this evidence, or, in the alternative, “ . . .a charge on the affirmative defense applying the law of alibi.” In his charge, the court defined the defense…