Hunter v. State

MARTIN, Judge.

Offense, robbery by assault; penalty, five years in the penitentiary.

A former appeal of this case resulted in a reversal. See 18 S. W. (2nd) 1085. A companion case was affirmed. Hunter v. State, 18 S. W. (2nd) 627. The facts sufficiently appear in the report of these two cases.

Upon the trial of the instant case it was elicited from appellant on cross-examination by the State that he was under suspended sentence for killing another negro. The appellant on redirect examination offered to testify to certain exculpatory facts explaining the matter brought out by the State. Objection…