Black v. State

OPINION

QUENTIN KEITH, Commissioner.

Appellant was indicted for the offense of robbery by assault. The jury found him guilty of the offense charged and assessed his punishment at confinement for a period of eight years.

At approximately one o’clock in the morning of February 2, 1972, Richard Butler, a plain-clothes security officer at the Warwick Hotel in Houston, was escorting Shirley Jobson, a telephone operator at the hotel, to her car parked on a side street near the hotel. While they were walking toward Miss Jobson’s car on Ewing Street, another vehicle pulled up behind them, honked, but it…