Barber v. State

WOODLEY, Judge.

The conviction is for robbery; the punishment, five years in the penitentiary.

John Mager (or Major) was the victim of the alleged robbery. He testified that he left his work at the Air Base near Big Spring on a trip to his former home at San Angelo; that while he was waiting for a boy with whom he usually rode, appellant and three others asked him if he wanted a ride, and told him that if he had a dollar and would buy gas they would take him to San Angelo.

Mager, who was a Negro truck driver, got into the back seat, with the four who were white boys and strangers to him. The car…