Cassidy v. State

324 S.W.2d 857 (1959)

Tex James CASSIDY, Appellant,

v.

STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 30651.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

April 22, 1959.

Rehearing Denied June 3, 1959.

Doss Hardin, Fort Worth, for appellant.

Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is robbery; the punishment, seven years.

Mrs. Fulcher, who was employed in a downtown tailor shop in Fort Worth, testified that she was momentarily alone in the shop at 5:00 p. m. when a man carrying a sack approached her and demanded that she open the cash register and hand him the money therefrom,…