Sennette v. State

OPINION

DALLY, Commissioner.

The conviction is for robbery by assault; the punishment, sixty years.

The sufficiency of the evidence is not challenged. It shows that at approximately 1:30 a. m., October 7, 1969, the appellant, accompanied by a woman companion, assaulted Jessie Lee Rusley with a shotgun at a service station where Rusley was employed. The appellant forced Rusley, who was in fear for his life, to give the keys to the cash register to his companion. When the woman had trouble getting the cash register open, the appellant said to Rusley, “Better open the drawer old man. Don’t make me…