McLaughlin v. State

OPINION

BELCHER, Judge.

The conviction is for robbery with firearms; the punishment, fifty years.

The appellant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to support the conviction.

The testimony of the state reveals that about 2:05 a. m., January 4, 1967, Thelma Brown, night manager of a 40 lane bowling alley, sold two cigars to a colored man who appeared “like he was looking in the cash register.” This man was wearing a red, maroon-colored shirt, gray hat, gray coat and gloves. About 2:15 a. m., Thelma again saw this man holding a pistol in the back of the porter, Harold Gooch, as they…