Chamberlain v. State

OPINION

DOUGLAS, Judge.

The conviction is for robbery by assault; the punishment, sixty years.

The sufficiency of the evidence is not challenged.

Appellant contends in the first ground of error that the trial court erred in refusing to postpone the trial, because Charles E. Hardin, a co-indictee, had escaped and had been shot and returned to custody and this had caused publicity. In the alternative he asked the court to instruct the prosecution not to mention the name of Charles E. Hardin.

Appellant introduced three articles that had appeared in the Fort Worth newspapers relating to Hardin’s…