Sanders v. State

OPINION

BELCHER Judge.

The offense is robbery with firearms; the punishment, forty years.

This is a companion case to Mayes v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 453 S.W.2d 160, this day decided.

The appellant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to support the conviction.

The evidence reveals that on the night of August 27 and 28, 1968, while Wilfred Engelke, the manager of the Wayfarer Motor Hotel, was in his apartment, Paul Hughes, the night manager and auditor, and Miguel Hidalgo, the night porter, were on duty at the Wayfarer. About 2 a. m., that night, three masked Negro men appeared in the hotel.…