Ellis v. State

OPINION

GREEN, Commissioner.

Appellant plead guilty and was convicted for aggravated robbery. Punishment was assessed by the jury at eighty-five years.

The record reflects that on January 31, 1975, appellant and Willie Earl Mathis, act ing together, and using and exhibiting pistols, robbed Norman Johnson, manager of a grocery store in Fort Worth, of money. Charles Johnson, father of Norman Johnson, was shot and killed by Mathis in the course of the robbery.

At the time of the offense appellant was over the age of fifteen years, but under seventeen years of age, he having been born February…