Kazee v. State

Christian, Judge.

The offense is robbery; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for fifteen years.

About 10 o’clock at night on July 7, 1937, a negro man went into the liquor store of Mrs. Laura Compton in the city of Houston and asked for five dollars’ worth of whisky. He told her he wanted a twenty-dollar bill changed, and she suggested that he go to the next liquor store a block away, where he might be able to buy the whisky and get the change. While he was gone Mrs. Compton talked to Mr. Gerrard, who lived back of her store, telling him that she was afraid of the negro. When the…