Kenney v. State

GRANT, Justice.

Jeffery Kenney was convicted of aggravated robbery and sentenced to twenty-seven years in the Texas Department of Corrections.

Kenney and an accomplice attacked the victim, a seventy-four year old man, when he discovered them in the process of robbing his home. The victim, Poteet, caught them filling a box with his belongings. He asked them what they were doing in his house and started toward his bedroom. The two men followed him and after Poteet produced a pocket knife, one of the two men knocked him down and both men started kicking him in his side, chest and head.

Poteet…