Banks v. State

OPINION

EVANS, Chief Justice.

A jury convicted the appellant of the offense of aggravated robbery and assessed his punishment at forty years imprisonment.

The security manager at Joske’s, a retail department store, testified that on October 30, 1979, he noticed the appellant taking boys’ jeans off a clothing rack and bending down to the floor. Observing the appellant place a plastic covering over the clothing and start to exit from the store without paying for the jeans, the security manager motioned to a store detective, and both men followed the appellant into the store’s parking lot and…