Bridges v. State

McDonald, judge.

The offense is robbery by assault; the punishment, twenty years in the penitentiary.

The state’s testimony reflects that Mrs. F. J. Eison was a widow; that she ran a grocery store at Gorman; that her store was robbed by a man with a nylon hose over his face; that he used a pistol; that he took approximately $100; that she saw the appellant in the car as he drove off and that the back of his head looked very familiar; that she saw the car a week later when appellant’s wife came into the store and that she was positive it was his car, a 1957 Mercury.

On cross-examination she said…