Hickombottom v. State

OPINION

DAVIS, Commissioner.

These are appeals from convictions for robbery by assault. Punishment was assessed at ninety-nine years for both appellants.

Appellants’ three contentions concern the admission of an extraneous offense.

Appellants and one Troy Lee Jones were identified as the three men who robbed at gun point the Food Giant Store No. 2 on Jansen Drive in Houston on July 6, 1970.

The State’s last witness at the guilt-innocence stage of the trial, Milan Lacy, testified over appellants’ objection, that appellants Carter and Hickombottom, along with Troy Lee Jones, robbed a grocery store…