Hall v. State

OPINION

ROBERTS, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for robbery with firearms; trial was before a jury and the court assessed the punishment at 25 years.

The appellant and William Derome Bux-ton were tried jointly. The court found that there was not sufficient evidence to convict Buxton, and instructed the jury to find him “not guilty.”

The evidence, viewed most favorably to the jury’s verdict, shows that at approximately 8:45 to 9 o’clock in the evening of March 10, 1968, a man armed with a pistol held up the Pace Grocery Store in Brownsville. He pointed his gun at both James Pace and…