Smith v. State

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is robbery; the punishment, 75 years.

Fielder, a night service station attendant in the city of Fort Worth, was beaten over the head to such an extent that he lost consciousness for several days and suffered injury to his brain which resulted in the loss of the senses of taste and smell, and temporary loss of memory. Fielder remembered that, before he was hit, the appellant, an off-duty attendant, had been in the station; and it was discovered after Fielder was found that the money from the cash register had been taken.

Appellant’s confession is but one…