Beets v. State

226 S.W.2d 853 (1950)

BEETS

v.

STATE.

No. 24552.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

January 18, 1950.

Rehearing Denied February 22, 1950.

Thomas H. Howard, Dallas, W. H. Reid, Dallas, for appellant.

George P. Blackburn, State's Atty., of Austin, for the State.

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

Appellant was assessed a penalty of twenty years in the penitentiary on a charge of robbery.

J. T. Shipley, a man sixty-seven years of age, lived near the town of Kemp, in Kaufman County. He had known appellant some thirty-five years ago, but had not seen him during the past several years. On the evening of February 5th, 1949, he…