Butler v. State

272 S.W.2d 125 (1954)

Paul Wayne BUTLER, Appellant,

v.

The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 27037.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

June 16, 1954.

Rehearing Denied October 20, 1954.

Murray J. Howze, Monahans, for appellant.

Wesley Dice, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

WOODLEY, Judge.

The conviction is for robbery; the punishment, 5 years in the penitentiary.

This is a companion case to that of Lebron R. Fields v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 272 S.W.2d 120.

The injured party, Julio Orozco Betancu, a 56 year old Mexican farm laborer whose wife and eight children resided in the State of Chihuahua, Mexico, was…