Armstead v. State

OPINION

OSBORN, Justice.

Curley Armstead was convicted by a jury of robbery, and with one enhancement of a prior offense his punishment was assessed at fifty years imprisonment. We affirm.

On December 29, 1981, just prior to closing the store, a clerk at a Town & Country-Store in Monahans was robbed by a black male who required that she place the money from a cash register in a Crown Royal sack. Shortly thereafter, the sheriff of Ward County picked up the Appellant at a cafe and questioned him about the robbery. They drove to the house where Appellant said he lived. The sheriff found a Crown…