Bell v. State

321 S.W.2d 302 (1959)

Ercel King BELL, Appellant,

v.

STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 30308.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

March 4, 1959.

B. E. Schwarzabach, Jr., El Paso, for appellant.

William E. Clayton, Dist. Atty., Lawrence M. Welsch and James W. Mast, Asst. Dist. Attys., El Paso, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is robbery, as denounced by Articles 1559 and 1560, V.A.P.C., in that the robbery was alleged to have been committed in a foreign country and the fruits thereof brought into the State of Texas; the punishment, 5 years.

The…