Browning v. State

OPINION

ONION, Judge.

The offense is robbery by assault; the punishment assessed each appellant by the court after a verdict of guilty, 45 years confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections.

The appellants were jointly indicted, jointly tried and each have appealed urging the same grounds of error. Therefore, these causes are consolidated for the purpose of appeal.

Appellant’s first two grounds of error concern the action of the trial court in overruling their joint amended motion for new trial. Initially, appellants complain that the court erred in refusing to hear evidence on such motion.…