Casias v. State

OPINION

ONION, Judge.

The offense is robbery by assault; the punishment, life.

Appellant contends the State failed to prove the corpus delicti and the evidence is insufficient to sustain the conviction.

Omitting the formal parts, the indictment charged that appellant on or about November 1, 1967,

“did then and there unlawfully in the County and State aforesaid, in and upon Mrs. J. H. Wilson make an assault; and did then and there, by the said assault, and by violence to the said Mrs. J. H. Wilson, and by putting the said Mrs. J. H. Wilson in fear of life and bodily injury, and then and there…