King v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is robbery; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for twenty years.

James Staton testified that appellant assaulted him at night and robbed him of twenty dollars. He testified further that at the time of the assault he had only one eye, and that appellant struck him in his good eye and put it out. Appellant admitted that he assaulted Staton but declared that he did not rob him. His testimony was to the effect that he was playing dominoes in a house near his front porch when his sister, Lizzy Lilton, called him and advised him that Staton was hiding in the…