Watkins v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The appellant was tried and convicted of the offense of robbery and his punishment was assessed at confinement in the state penitentiary for a term of five years.

The record shows that in the early part of the night on October 27, 1934, two men in an automobile drove up to the Gulf Service Station, of which Oscar Calloway was manager, in the town of Henrietta and by the use of a pistol robbed him of the sum of nineteen ($19.00) dollars in money. Oscar Calloway’s brother was present at the time of the robbery and they both positively identified the appellant as the man who held a…