White v. State

Appellant was convicted of robbery of Joe Johnson and sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment.

Joe Johnson and Barney Morrison testified that on the morning of October 15, 1976, while they were at a boat landing warming some stew and cleaning a painter's truck owned by Morrison, by whom Johnson was employed as a painter, two black men "jumped down" and one of them beat Johnson with a stick. Johnson said that nineteen dollars and fifty-five cents was taken out of his pocket, four or five ribs fractured, some of his teeth knocked out and he went to a hospital for treatment. Morrison testified…