Watts v. State

DAVIDS OH, Judge.

—The indictment contains one count charging robbery, and one charging theft from the person. The county attorney elected to try on the count charging theft from the person.

Claude Mayes was permitted to testify, over appellant’s objections, that at the time or immediately after the time of the alleged theft the injured party, Eeagan, came to his place, something like two hundred yards from the scene of the theft, and requested the witness to give him something to defend himself; that the negroes had robbed him and were then trying to kill him. Mayes further testified that he…