Hawkins v. State

CALHOUN, Judge.

Robbery with firearms is the offense; punishment, 14 years in the penitentiary.

The evidence shows that about 12:45 o’clock on the night of November 16, 1932, two young men came into the Gulf Filling station on Lee St. in the city of Greenville and one of said young men held a pistol on the employee in charge of the station and required him to open the cash register, from which they took about $11.00 in money. The two young men who entered the filling station were afterwards identified as Barney Smithhart and Sam Sapp. The filling station employee who was robbed testified that…