Delaney v. State

BROOKS, Judge.

This conviction is for robbery committed by the use of firearms, the penalty assessed being five years confinement in the penitentiary.

The statement of facts shows that prosecutor John Montague, arrived in El Paso, from Cananea, Mexico, en route to Bandera County, to visit his sick sister. While waiting at El Paso for his train, an unknown party (whose name was afterwards ascertained to be Martin) enveigled prosecutor into a saloon, under the pretext that said Martin wanted to buy a cigar. Harris (codefendant) was the proprietor of the saloon. Immediately upon entering the…