Jones v. State

Appellant was convicted of the crime of robbery under Section 2362 and sentenced to a term of seven years in the State penitentiary. He and several other Negroes were engaged in gambling with dice and appellant lost most, if not all, of his money. He then pulled a pistol and, according to the testimony for the State, verified by four of the participants in the game, he took practically all the money they had, including not only that which they had won from him, but also money which they had when the game started. His defense was that he took only the money which they had won from him and he…