Evans v. State

OPINION

JACKSON, Commissioner.

The conviction is for robbery; the punishment, life, enhanced under Art. 62, Vernon’s Ann.P.C., because of a prior conviction of felony theft.

On November 12, 1971, Jesse Moore was operating his filling station at Duncanville when appellant approached him and said his car was out of gas. Moore put a dollar’s worth of gas in a can and drove appellant several blocks to a parked green Chevrolet Corvair. When Moore got out of his car to put the gas in the Corvair, appellant pointed a gun at him and said: “Give me your money.” Moore, in fear for his life, gave him his…