Dukes v. State

DAVIDSON, Judge.

This is a conviction for robbery; the punishment, five years’ confinement in the penitentiary.

This is a companion case to that of Dukes v. State, 161 Texas Cr. R. 423, 277 S.W. 2d 710, wherein the facts are set forth which we held to be sufficient to support the conviction.

The jury that tried the instant case was composed of four women and eight men.

When the time came to recess court, after the first day’s session, the trial court was confronted with the problem of providing sleeping quarters for the jury so as not to require unrelated men and women to occupy the same sleeping…