Meyers v. State

MARTIN, Judge.

— Offense, robbery with firearms; penalty, ninety-nine years in the penitentiary.

The State’s evidence shows that about Christmas eve, 1928, appellant robbed N. H. Howard, manager of Grant’s Store in the City of Dallas, of the sum of $2470.00 in money at the point of a six shooter. He was captured before leaving the store.

Appellant admitted the robbery and offered insanity as his only defense. His testimony tends to show that shortly after his graduation from high school he began working in a restaurant and about that time received a suspended sentence in Oklahoma for the theft…