Ward v. State

OPINION

ROBERTS, Judge.

The appellant was convicted by a jury of robbery by assault and sentenced by the court to twenty years’ imprisonment.

The complainant, Eugene Dry, testified that he was employed by Frankford Properties as a property manager and that on December 8, 1973, he was in Dallas on business. While there, he was residing in an apartment complex owned by his employer.

On the day in question the complainant was returning to his apartment carrying a television set he had just rented when he was attacked by two men standing in a breezeway of the apartment complex. The men beat the…