Roberts v. State

BELCHER, Judge.

The conviction is for robbery with firearms; the punishment, death.

The trial was had in Ward County on a change of venue from Reeves County.

The testimony of Kenny Richards, the assaulted party, that of Officer Gilbert who saw the appellant and his companion leaving a service station, and of Highway Patrolmen Blanchard and Martin, who apprehended appellant and his companion at a road-block, and appellant’s written statement, show that appellant and his companion entered a service station where the assaulted party was on duty alone about 1:30 A.M.; that appellant, while pointing…