Earl Cockrell v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

— The appellant was convicted of the offense of robbery, and his punishment was assessed at confinement in the state penitentiary for a term of five years.

Mrs. Hazel Williams, who owned and conducted a sandwich shop and filling station on the Marshall highway in Gregg County, was robbed on the night of September 10, 1935, by a lone bandit who obtained from her at the time $77.70 of the following denominations: $9.00 in nickels, $3.00 in dimes, $13.00 in quarters, $11.00 in half-dollars, and $15.00 in five dollar bills, a ten dollar bill, and ten one dollar bills; and also three…