Barber v. State

258 S.W.2d 87 (1953)

BARBER

v.

STATE.

No. 26260.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

March 11, 1953.

Rehearing Denied April 29, 1953.

Second Motion for Rehearing Denied June 3, 1953.

Calloway Huffaker and Harold Green, Tahoka, for appellant.

George P. Blackburn, State's Atty., of Austin, for the State.

WOODLEY, Judge.

The conviction is for robbery; the punishment five years in the penitentiary.

John Mager (or Major) was the victim of the alleged robbery. He testified that he left his work at the Air Base near Big Spring on a trip to his former home at San Angelo; that while he was waiting for a boy with…