Faulkner v. State

BAKER, Judge.

The appellant was convicted of the offense of robbery with firearms, and his punishment assessed at five years in the penitentiary.

The record discloses that on the night of December 16, 1924, the prosecuting witne'ss, Riley James, while being taken in an automobile driven by Grady Faulkner, the brother of the appellant, to the town of Bremond, where he intended to board a train, was held up on the way by a couple of parties, with drawn pistols. One of the parties, after striking said James a time or two with some instrument, shoved a pistol in his side and marched him some…