Bailey v. State

OPINION

DALLY, Commissioner.

This is an appeal from a conviction for the offense of robbery by firearms; the punishment assessed by the jury is imprisonment for 25 years.

A judgment was reversed in an earlier appeal from a conviction for the same offense because the punishment assessed was not authorized by law. See Bailey v. State, 501 S.W.2d 633 (Tex.Cr.App.1973). The appellant was again tried for this offense; a mistrial was declared on April 25, 1974, because the jury could not reach a verdict. In this appeal from the judgment after the third trial the appellant urges several grounds of…