Houston v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

— Appellant and E. V. Powell were jointly indicted for the robbery of Joe A. Caldron. Appellant was alone upon trial which resulted in a conviction with an assessed penalty of ten years in the penitentiary.

Caldron worked at a gasoline filling station in Houston. On the night of October 5th, 1927, at about fifteen minutes to twelve o’clock two men in a Chrysler roadster drove into the filling station. When Caldron approached to wait on them one presented a pistol at him commanding him to put his hands. He did so and the man with the gun told him not to put them up “that way but…