Thomas v. State

OPINION

GREEN, Commissioner.

In a trial before a jury, appellant was convicted of robbery by firearms. Punishment was assessed at sixty-five years.

The record reflects that on March 22, 1972, a robbery occurred at the South Park National Bank in Houston, in which several men participated. The evidence is undisputed that appellant was one of the robbers and that in the robbery he possessed and exhibited a gun. He was identified by five eyewitnesses, and photographs from cameras in the bank activated by an alarm show clearly his participation. Additionally, his written confession was introduced in…