Moore v. State

MORROW, Judge.

The appeal is from a judgment condemning the appellant to confinement in the penitentiary for five years for the offense of robbery.

The reliance of the State is wholly upon circumstantial evidence. Mrs. Mary Scott, the injured party, a woman about 73 years of age, testified that about midnight on June 20 a negro man entered her house, took her by the throat while she way lying on her bed, demanded her money, and put her in fear so that she got her purse and emptied the silver therein, about 90 cents, into the appellant’s hand whereupon he left the premises. She, with her son,…