Mason v. State

OPINION

DOUGLAS, Judge.

The appeal is from a conviction for robbery by the use of a firearm. The punishment was assessed by the court at 25 years.

The record reflects that Danny Dixon, at approximately midnight on August 6, 1969, was riding in a taxicab driven by Leon Moten several miles from Huntsville. A pickup truck followed the cab, and Dixon pulled a pistol and ordered Moten to stop. A man got out of the pickup truck, and he and Dixon took some eighty-seven dollars and a Battlesteins’ credit card from Moten. They then removed the distributor wires, the keys to the cab and the radio…