Renesto v. State

OPINION

ONION, Judge.

The offense is robbery by assault with a firearm; the punishment, 5 years’ confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections.

The appellant’s conviction resulted from a plea of guilty entered before a jury. 1

The record reflects that on November 14, 1968, near midnight Mrs. Lundberg, an employee of the Hitching Post Grocery at 5428 Jacksboro Highway in Tarrant County, was robbed at gunpoint of $53.00 by a man named Smith who made her place the money in a brown paper bag.

Carey Dulaney related that earlier on the same evening the appellant and one Smith had entered his car in…