Robertson v. State

DICE, Commissioner.

The conviction is for robbery by assault; the punishment, thirty years.

The facts, briefly stated, show that at approximately 9:25 o’clock, a. m., on the morning of January 21, 1963, two men, one of whom was armed with a pistol, entered a Handymarket store in Benbrook, Tarrant County, Texas, and robbed the store manager, Billy D. Little, of $564.17 in money. Appellant was identified by Little later in the day at a police line-up and also at the trial as one of the men who had robbed him. At 3 o’clock, p. m., on the day of the robbery, Officers Cardwell, Leath, and Durant, of…