Beard v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of robbery, and given six years in the penitentiary.

The evidence shows that appellant and one Wilson followed a negro boy, who had spent the night in Wilson’s barn, with Wilson’s consent, a distance of six miles, to the town of Mt. Calm, in Hill County. They claimed the negro boy had stolen what is termed a “jumper” from the barn, and had also entered Wilson’s house, and taken therefrom a pair of shoes, and perhaps some wearing apparel. They found the negro at the depot at Mt. Calm, and forced him to go down the railroad track some distance,…