Hawkins v. State

OPINION

ONION, Judge.

The offense is robbery by assault. The punishment of each appellant was assessed by the court at confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections for 40 years.

The appellants were jointly indicted and tried.

In their sole ground of error the appellants complain of the admission into evidence of an extraneous offense of robbery.

E. G. Tullos, a bus driver, testified that on November 28, 1966, he was robbed of $93.50 in Harris County, Texas. He identified the appellants as his assailants. On cross-examination the appellants, who subsequently asserted a defense of alibi,…