Williams v. State

OPINION

McCORMICK, Judge.

Appellants, Clyde Williams, Jr., and David Lee Smith, were jointly tried and convicted for the aggravated robbery of a Pizza Inn cashier. The jury assessed punishment for Williams at fifty-five years and Smith at forty years. In a single ground of error, appellants attack their convictions based on admission of an extraneous “offense” transaction involving appellant Williams.

At trial, Albert Bradford and Adolphus Jackson testified that on December 28, 1978, they were at a car wash located behind the Pizza Inn. A car pulled into an open bay, six men got out and walked…