Williams v. State

Possession of a pistol by a convicted felon; sentence: five years imprisonment.

Glenda Black testified that on the night of February 16, 1977, she and her family went shopping at Warehouse Groceries. She remained in their automobile with one child while her husband and another child entered the store. A short while later she heard firecracker-like sounds from the store and saw three black males exit the building. Mrs. Black stopped a young male passerby from entering the store, and he knelt for safety beside her car. Mrs. Black then observed appellant cross behind her car, walk up to the young…