Hicks v. State

WOODLEY, Judge.

The offense is robbery by assault; the punishment, 12 years.

The indictment alleged that appellant made an assault upon Thomas B. White and that by said assault and violence to him and by putting him in fear of life and bodily injury, fraudulently took from his possession, without his consent, one pistol, the property of Thomas B. White, with intent to deprive Thomas B. White of the same and to appropriate the same to his own use.

Thomas B. White was a police officer of the City of Midland.

Appellant, under indictment for forgery, escaped from custody after being taken to the…