Green v. State

OPINION

ONION, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for robbery by firearms 1 with the punishment being assessed by the Jury at 25 years.

Jim Carson, owner of Papa Jim’s Grocery Store on Holmes Street in the city of Dallas, testified that about 9:15 a. m. on February 27, 1968, the Appellant Green entered his store and at gunpoint robbed him of $153, some change and several cartons of cigarettes.

He identified a .22 cal. revolver as the firearm used by the Appellant. The weapon was shown to have been recovered from an automobile the Appellant and three other men were pushing when…