Murphy v. State

OPINION

CLINTON, Judge.

THis is an appeal from a conviction for aggravated robbery in which the jury assessed appellant’s punishment at 45 years confinement.

Luke Bradley, a sales manager at a Dallas Sears Store, identified appellant as the man — wearing a woman’s nylon hose over part of his face and brandishing a pistol— who forcibly took Bradley’s car as well as an attache ease containing $8,600.00 in checks and currency on the morning of July 7, 1976.

Testifying in his own behalf, appellant denied commission of the robbery and gave an alibi account of his whereabouts at the time of the…