Gates v. State

McKAY, Justice.

This is an appeal from a conviction for aggravated robbery. After the jury’s return of a guilty verdict, punishment was assessed by the court at 20 years’ confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections. The sufficiency of the evidence to support the conviction is not challenged.

The evidence adduced at trial reveals that sometime after 3:00 p.m. on January 21, 1979, Dorothy Lindsey was driving home, accompanied by her daughter, Sherry Killings, who was sitting in the front seat, Ms. Killings’ young daughter Shamica standing in the floor of the back seat, and Ms. Lindsey’s…