Carrier v. State

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is robbery; the punishment, 99 years.

The appellant plead guilty and offered no evidence in his behalf.

The state’s evidence will be summarized. Mr. Sims, a 62-year old tubercular, was assaulted by appellant at Sims’ home and beaten over the head with a sack containing buckshot and then with a pair of heavy tin snips. Following this, Sims was forced to drive his automobile to a point where appellant’s wife joined them; sometime later the appellant took the wheel, forced Sims to kneel on the floorboard of his automobile, and drove to a relatively isolated spot in the…