Carson v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The offense is robbery; the punishment assessed is confinement in the state penitentiary for a term of 50 years.

It appears from the record that on the night of October 9, 1938, appellant entered the Cox-Moore Drug Company located in Dallas, Texas, and with a gun in hand commanded J. S. Rogers, an employee of said company to open the cash register. When Rogers complied with the command, appellant took therefrom approximately $150. — fifty of it being in one dollar bills and the balance being in five dollar bills.

It appears that while appellant was committing the offense, an…