Blankenship v. State

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is robbery with firearms; the punishment, death.

Since there was almost no conflict in the evidence, it will be stated in narrative form.

At approximately one o’clock in the morning of the day charged in the indictment, appellant arrived at an apartment in Houston and began to play poker with a number of his associates. By 6:00 A.M., being without funds, he left the apartment, saying that he was going to get some more money and would be back. At 7:40 A.M. he presented himself at the entrance of the Bush Stadium where he had formerly been employed and where…