Scobey v. State

DAVIDSON, Judge.

Robbery with firearms is the offense; the punishment, fifteen years’ confinement in the State penitentiary.

The Hennigson Egg Breaking Plant, at Denison, Texas, operated in the premises of the Kraft Cheese Company, paid its employees each Saturday afternoon. The amount due each employee was placed in an envelope bearing his name.

On the morning of Saturday, June 21st, 1941, Howell, the manager of the plant, and his secretary, Miss Davidson, were engaged in making out the weekly pay roll, when a bandit, partially disguised by a handkerchief over the lower part of his face, held…