Beets v. State

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

Appellant was assessed a penalty of twenty years in the penitentiary on a charge of robbery.

J. T. Shipley, a man sixty-seven years of age, lived near *276the town of Kemp, in Kaufman County. He had known appellant some thirty-five years ago, but had not seen him during the past several years. On the evening of February 5th, 1949, he met appellant at a cafe in Kemp and engaged in a brief conversation with him. At about 10:30 that night he saw him at a filling station while the prosecutor was on his way home, carrying some groceries. As he proceeded down the road, on foot, he saw a…