Henson v. State

DAVIDSON, Judge.

The offense is robbery; the punishment, five years in the State penitentiary.

That the appellant and Kenneth Yates assaulted and robbed the injured party, W. R. Davis, of $17.50 is shown by his (Davis’) testimony. Such was sufficient to authorize the jury’s conclusion of guilt.

The only bills of exception appearing in this record complains of the action of the trial court in refusing to grant appellant’s application for a continuance or postponement of the case because of the absence of certain witnesses named therein, whose testimony, it was alleged, was material to the…