Peebles and Allen v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is robbery; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for ten years.

The parties involved in the transaction which was alleged to constitute robbery are negroes. According to the version of Bertha Marks, the injured party, the appellants took $34.17 from her without her consent on the 2nd of February, 1939. At the time of the alleged robbery she met the appellants at 12 o’clock noon on a busy street in the City of Houston. She testified that “dozens and hundreds of people were passing on the sidewalk” at the time she was robbed. She testified, further, that…