Brown v. State

CALHOUN, Judge.

The offense, robbery with firearms; the punishment, death.

Appellant was indicted by the grand jury of Wichita county, Texas, for robbery with firearms of one Vera Smith, and upon the trial in Young county was convicted and the death penalty assessed.

The testimony of Miss Vera Smith, briefly stated, was as follows: That she resided in Wichita Falls, Texas, and was 24 years old, and had resided in Wichita Falls for five years; that upon the evening of September 9, 1931, she and. her fiance, A. N. Nodurft, went over to visit a cousin who lived in the same town; that after they had…