Turner v. State

MERRILL, Justice.

The defendant was convicted of robbery and sentenced to twenty-five years in the state penitentiary. The Court of Criminal Appeals reversed the judgment on the ground that one of defendant’s witnesses, Curtis Ward, was threatened with imprisonment, browbeaten and intimidated in the cross-examination by the district attorney.

The victim of the robbery testified that he got in an automobile with the defendant and one Willie Mae Higgins, that they drove out on a county road and the defendant forcibly took $240.00 from him and left him by the side of the road. The victim came back…