Sommers v. State

DICE, Judge.

The conviction is for robbery with firearms; the punishment, 20 years in the penitentiary.

William A. Nixon, the injured party, was a night manager of a service station in the city of San Antonio. On the night in question, while Nixon was on duty, an automobile drove into the station, two men got out, one with a pistol in his hand who said, “This is a hold-up,” and then fired one shot with the pistol. After Nixon and two other men who were in the station were told to face the wall, Nixon, with the gun stuck in his back was forced to open the cash register and the two men took a…