Lucas v. State

DICE, Commissioner.

The offense is robbery, with a prior conviction for an offense of like character alleged for enhancement; the punishment, life imprisonment.

The state’s proof shows that on the day in question three men wearing plastic Hal-lowe’en-type masks- — -two of whom were armed with pistols — entered a Safeway Store at 3601 Avenue E in the city of Fort Worth, around 8:20 o’clock, p. m., and after forcing D. H. Zettler, the store manager, to place a large sum of money in a bag, fled from the building with the money. The total amount of money taken was $2,207, consisting of a large…