Viley v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

— Appellant was convicted in the Criminal District Court of Tarrant County of the offense of robbery, and his punishment fixed at five years confinement in the penitentiary.

Without going into details the facts show substantialy that on the night in question the alleged injured party went to his boarding house and was confronted by three men on the porch, appellant and two other negroes being positively identified by said prosecuting witness as the three'men. Witness said that one of them stuck a gun in. his face and ordered him to “stick em up,” and that he stuck up his…