Jones v. State

OPINION

GREEN, Commissioner.

Appellants Earl Jones and Robert William Jefferson, along with two other men, were jointly charged by indictment with robbery by assault of Melba Bywaters. Severance was granted as to the other two defendants, and Jones and Jefferson went to trial. The court charged the jury on the law of principals. Both of these appellants were convicted, and both were assessed a punishment of SO years.

The record discloses that between 8:00 and 8:30 o’clock on the morning of October 27, 1969, Mrs. Melba By waters, employee of the No. 93 Weingarten store in Houston, was robbed by…