Garza v. State

McDONALD, Presiding Judge.

The offense is robbery by assault; the punishment, 30 years confinement in the state penitentiary.

The evidence reveals that shortly before noon on July 22, 1960, two men entered the Salazar Grocery Store in Houston, Texas, wearing stockings over their faces and carrying pistols. After both men had ordered Mrs. Salazar, the owner of the store, to put her hands up, the smaller of the two directed his companion, later identified as appellant, to go to the cash register. When Mrs. Salazar began screaming, the smaller man struck her and pushed her to the floor. There he…