Mindieta v. State

MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

These three appellants were tried jointly for robbery, and their punishment was assessed at five years.

The injured party testified that he accompanied a number of his relatives to midnight Christmas mass but that his small son became restless and he went outside to wait for the others, that the three appellants approached the automobile in which he was seated, that one was armed with a broken beer bottle and the other two with knives. He stated that one of the appellants held a knife against his ribs while another held the broken beer bottle at the back of his neck…