Reed v. State

OPINION

DOUGLAS, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction for robbery by assault. The jury assessed the punishment at 100 years.

The sufficiency of the evidence is not challenged. It is contended that reversible error was committed when the appellant was impeached by proof of a prior conviction and that the court commented on the weight of the evidence.

The record reflects that the appellant at gun point robbed Elvin R. Lewis and his wife in a neighborhood grocery in Hut-chins of some one thousand seven hundred dollars. He was identified at the trial by Lewis and his wife. Officers lifted…