Hess v. State

DICE, Judge.

The offense is robbery by assault; the punishment, life imprisonment.

The state’s evidence shows that the prosecuting witness, Doris Orsak, was a cashier in a Walgreen Drug Store in the city of Houston. On the night in question a man whom she positively identified as the appellant came into the store and handed her a note which read “This is a stick-up.” Appellant then exhibited a pistol, pointed it at the prosecuting witness and told her he wanted all the money from “one to twenties.” Thereupon at the point of the gun, she gave the appellant all the bills and some checks from the…