Harris v. State

HENDERSON, Judge.

The appellant in this case was tried under an indictment charging him with robbery, was convicted, and his punishment assessed at five years’ confinement in the penitentiary; and from the judgment and sentence of the lower court he prosecutes this appeal.

Appellant assigns but two errors, the first of which is, that the indictment charged that defendant, by means of the robbery, “did take from the person and possession of the prosecutor, Joe Rosentta, $20 in the paper money, and then and there current money of the United States, a better description thereof being to the grand…