Pointer v. State

375 S.W.2d 293 (1963)

Bob Granville POINTER, Appellant,

v.

The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 36347.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

December 18, 1963.

Rehearing Denied February 12, 1964.

Orville A. Harlan, Houston (On Appeal Only), for appellant.

Frank Briscoe, Dist. Atty., Joe C. Shaffer and Daniel P. Ryan, Jr., Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

DICE, Commissioner.

The conviction is for robbery; the punishment, life imprisonment.

The state's evidence shows that on the night of June 16, 1962, a man who was positively identified as the appellant…