Pruitt v. State

DICE, Judge.

The offense is robbery; the punishment, five years.

The evidence is undisputed that on the night of January 1, 1956, Charles Thomas, a night watchman for the Steele Lumber Company in the city of Fort Worth, was assaulted and *341robbed of an International truck and a quantity of mahogany plywood of the approximate value of $1200. The evidence further shows that the appellant was one of the participants in the robbery.

Appellant interposed duress as a defense and in support of the same testified that he participated in the robbery with his step-grandfather because of threats made against…