Brown v. State

HARPER, Judge.

—Appellant was charged by indictment with robbery by the use of firearms and convicted and his punishment assessed at ten years confinement in the penitentiary. The indictment was drawn under article 856 of the Penal Code, which is as follows:

“If any person by assault or violence or by putting in fear of life or bodily injury shall fraudulently take from the person or possession of another any property with intent to appropriate the same to his own use he shall be punished by confinement in the penitentiary for life or for a term of not less than five years; and when firearms or…